A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

In 1989, when I was just a baby, we moved to France because of some conflicts that were brewing in Armenia.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

Most black British people who have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their connections to the U.K. and in search of a better life. I should know: I am one...

Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.

My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.

When I moved to L.A. I was single and didn't want to be on my own.

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the...

If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal...

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the...

As an immigrant from South Korea with family members who fled North Korea, supporting the North Korean people is personal to me.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.

I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

I might live in Europe, but I sleep in Africa.

I am a Punjabi, but I have been in Mumbai.

The unregulated migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from terrorist safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has created a very difficult threat environment for Europe.

I moved to Mumbai to pursue my degree after high school.

My father came here from Mexico.

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I...

The working conditions of Indian labourers in the Gulf countries are notoriously abusive.

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

I am still adapting to London life, but England was always a country that 'interested me.'

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.