Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller

"Migrants: The Story of Us All," by Sam Miller, offers a different perspective of the world in which migration is restored to the core of the human story.

- Swapna Peri

According to the book, people migrate for various reasons, including curiosity and a feeling of adventure, civil conflict, destitution, and climate change. The author contends that humans are the most mobile animal, having colonized every continent except Antarctica not once but many times. The book calls into question the common belief that having a fixed residence and a lifelong nationality are natural as if they are part of the human situation. Instead, it implies that people have always been mobile.

The book is written in the first person. This makes the book more interesting. Miller also discusses how migration plays an essential part in the struggle for contemporary India's identity and the disagreements about that identity in India, where he lived for over a decade. The book additionally points out how history texts are written by sedentary people for sedentary people, thus naturally representing the nationalism of an established people.