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This book aims to shed light on a global and complex phenomenon: migration. In order to grasp this vast and ambiguous issue, the book offers ten multi-layered case studies, each focussing on one aspect of migration. With this selection of articles, this collected volume builds a bridge between the past and the present and highlight the many sides of migration. The chapters will demonstrate how the questions of controlled migration, movement of labour, improvement of one´s life, and interaction of people of different origin have puzzled us in the course of the last five hundred years.

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Maija Liisa Ojala-Fulwood, University of Tampere

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