Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration.

Departures. From The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (West Africa --> Barbados) / Olaudah Equiano -- Zong! #5 (West Africa --> ) / M. NourbeSe Philip -- Come, Japanese! (Japan --> USA) / Julie Otsuka -- Under the wire (Mexico --> USA) / Francisco Jiménez -- From Lost in translation (Poland --> Canada) / Eva Hoffman -- From How to get filthy rich in rising Asia (village --> city) / Mohsin Hamid -- Children of the sea (Haiti --> ) / Edwidge Danticat -- From Aunt Jen (Jamaica --> UK) / Paulette Ramsay -- An honest exit (Ethiopia --> Sudan --> Italy --> UK --> USA) / Dinaw Mengestu -- Good advice is rarer than rubies (Pakistan --> UK) / Salman Rushdie -- Conversations about home (at the deportation centre) (Somalia --> UK) / Warsan Shire -- Another planet (Earth --> other planet) / Dunya Mikhail -- Arrivals. On being brought from Africa to America (West Africa --> North America) / Phillis Wheatley -- The tropics in New York (Jamaica --> USA) / Claude McKay -- From To sir, with love (Guyana --> UK) / E. R. Braithwaite -- Come back to Grenada (Grenada --> UK) / Sam Selvon -- Montreal 1962 (India --> Canada) / Shauna Singh Baldwin -- From The bridge of the golden horn (Turkey --> Germany) / Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- From Persepolis 2: the story of a return (Iran --> Austria) / Marjane Satrapi -- From Strawberry fields (Ukraine --> UK) / Marina Lewycka -- From Temporary people (India --> United Arab Emirates) / Deepak Unnikrishnan -- Heading somewhere (Ethiopia --> Canada/Syria) / Djamila Ibrahim -- Generations. The time of the peacock (India --> Australia) / Mena Abdullah -- From Tea in the harem (Algeria --> France) / Mehdi Charef -- Ellis Island (Native American/Russia --> USA) / Joseph Bruchac -- Coolie mother and Coolie son (the toilet attendant writes home) (India --> Guyana --> UK) / David Dabydeen -- Out on Main Street (India --> Trinidad and Tobago --> Canada) / Shani Mootoo -- My son the fanatic (Pakistan --> UK) / Hanif Kureishi -- From White teeth (Jamaica --> UK) / Zadie Smith -- AmeRícan (Puerto Rico --> mainland USA) / Tato Laviera -- Green (Nigeria --> USA) / Sefi Atta -- origin stories (reprise) (Sudan --> USA) / Safia Elhillo -- Returns. A conversation (Egypt --> USA --> Egypt) / Pauline Kaldas.