High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that at one point in 2015 an average of ~5,000 migrants a day travelled just from Turkey to Greece.

The quantity of people forced to flee their homes – within their countries as well as internationally – far surpassed 60 million in 2015. Western European countries have about 20% immigrants (up to the third generation), and Australia has more than twice that number. As has been observed, if subsequent generations are added to first-generation migrants the numbers become even bigger. In 2010, about 6.5% of the total population of European countries had foreign nationalities, and 9.4% were born abroad ( Vasileva, 2011).

The top three countries in the world with foreign born as percentages of their populations are Luxembourg with 42%, Israel with 32%, and Switzerland with 28%. That translates into roughly 1 in every 30 people on the face of the globe ( United Nations, 2016). What in 1990 was 154 million and in 2000 175 million, the United Nations (U.N.) Population Division reported that as of 2015 nearly 245 million people live outside the country of their birth or citizenship.

It comes as little surprise, then, that migration and acculturation are global concerns in our own time. Indeed, human beings have not ceased migrating even though virtually all habitable places on earth have long since been settled. Polynesian expansion, Phoenician trade, Jewish diaspora, Persian realm, Alexandrian conquest, Roman hegemony, Hun invasion, Umayyad caliphate, Viking settlement, Ifat sultanate, Hanseatic league, and Columbian exchange illuminate the history of successive intercultural contacts, just as, beginning 23 centuries BC with Sargon’s expansion of Akkad across the Fertile Crescent, Egyptian, Kushite, Aksumite, Ottoman, Inca, Mongol, Songhai, Moghul, Napoleonic, and British empires-all intercultural permeations-followed one another inexorably. Throughout human history, people have been on the move, and migration and acculturation have been facts of the human condition ever since peoples of the African savannah radiated outward in their treks to new lands ( Cann, Stoneking, & Wilson, 1987 Jin et al., 1999 Stringer, 1988).

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