Migration is at the heart of asian history for centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors, merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors along the silk road, across the indian ocean and the china sea sunil s amriths engaging and deeply informative book crosses a vast terrain from the middle east to india and china, tracing the history of modern migration animated by the voices of asian migrants, it tells the stories of those forced to flee from war, revolution and those who left their homes and their families in search of a better life these stories of asian diasporas can be joyful or poignant, but they all speak of an engagement with new landscapes and new peoples