ABSTRACT
In evolutionary terms, humans have been migrating since practically the beginning of time. Scientists trace the earliest human remains to Ethiopia some 200,000 years ago, with evidence that homo sapiens began migrating to other parts of the world about 60,000 years ago, perhaps due to changes in rainfall patterns (Harzig, Hoerder, & Gabaccia, 2009; National Geographic, n.d.). Evidence of migration has been preserved in fossils, recorded in documents, remembered through oral histories, and instilled through religious leitmotifs of exile, pilgrimage, and welcoming the stranger. From these anthropological and historical perspectives, human migration (both voluntary and involuntary) appears recurrent, without which a majority of humans would not be where they are today.
