Australia: the continent of immigrants / Graeme Hugo -- Brazil: a historical and contemporary view of Brazilian migration / Nobuko Adachi -- China: Chinese immigrants in the global economy / Yu Zhou -- Cuba: colonizers, slaves, exiles and refugees in Cuban history / Felix Masud-Piloto -- France: the melting pot of Europe / Jeremy Hein -- Ghana: internal, international, and transnational migration / Joseph R. Oppong -- Ireland: a historical and political interpretation of the Irish Diaspora / Sean Kenny -- Japan: immigration in, out, and back and forth / James Stanlaw -- Mexico: Mexican international migration / Patricia Zamudio -- The Netherlands: the myth of ethnic equality / Twanna A. Hines -- The Philippines: the dilemma of Philippine international labor migration / James A. Tyner -- Puerto Rico: Between the nation and the diaspora- migration to and from Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany -- Tanzania: to carry a heavy burden in the heat of the day- Migration to and from Tanzania / Cassandra Veney -- The United States: immigration to the melting pot of the Americas / Rogelio Saenz, Maria Cristina Morales, and Maria Isabel Ayala.