Both the demand for long-distance moves from poor to rich countries and the ability of the potential migrants to finance those moves have soared over the past two centuries. As the gap in living ...

After a century of tumultuous change and growth, at the start of the 21st century New York remarkably had come to resemble nothing so much as New York at the start of the 20th century.The ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. All of us are descended from migrants. Our species, Homo sapiens, did not evolve in Lahore, where I am writing these words.

After a century of tumultuous change and growth, at the start of the 21st century New York remarkably had come to resemble nothing so much as New York at the start of the 20th century.The ...

In 2015, Germany agreed to accept a million Syrian refugees. The country had become an epicenter of global migration and one of Europe's most diverse countries. But was this influx of migration new to ...

Technology and culture were strong factors in the 20th century. Migration's effect on Britain - economics and commerce Migration shaped England and later Britain. Danes, Huguenots, Irish and ...

The Caribbean and Asian people who came to Britain in the 20th century; Or migrants from Poland and other Eastern European countries who've come to Britain in the last 20 years; You will see how ...

German nationals wait outside Paddington Green police station in London to register under new immigration rules that declared them "aliens." Bettmann Archive/Getty Images The 1905 Aliens Act ...

Economists Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson have similarly calculated that after “the U.S. government slammed the door on immigration” early in the 20th century, inequality plummeted as ...

From much of the early 20th century Ellis Island is where the ancestors ... which he prepared while explaining what the immigration experience was like for people of different classes.

The surge in immigration swelling Australia’s population ... Sydney, the nation’s most populous city since the turn of the 20th century, will add about 900,000 residents over the next decade ...