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Revision with unchanged content. In a world characterised by unabated human migrations and movement, some of the questions that would be of concern to the inquiring mind would na turally be that of the nature and after-effects of the inevitable culture con tact between the migrants and the receiving societies; the disposition of the receiving societies towards the migrants; and the adaptation of the migrants to their society of adoption. Using the Igbo migrants in Europe as a case study, this book sets out to in di ca te how the interaction between the migrant experience of a people and their cosmological fundamentals engenders the development of adaptation stra tegies, which tend to transform them from ordinary migrants to trans na tio nals. Students of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Sociology, Inter na tio nal relations, European Migration and Integration Policies will find this book very valuable. It will also be very useful for policy makers, as well as pastoral and social workers. Migrants, especially intending and prospective migrants from Africa and other sending societies will also find this book very informative.

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Rev. Fr. Dr. Sebastian Okechukwu Onah is a priest from the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka, Nigeria. He holds a doctorate degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology. He is member of the Belgian Inter-diocesan commission, Pro-Migrantbus, as well as of the Interculturalism, Migration and Minority Research Centre (IMMRC).

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