Human mobility, or migration, has had an unparalleled impact on world history. As Triandafyllidou observed ‘Ever since early humans embarked from Africa to colonize the world, 50,000–60,000 years ago, the history of humanity is a history of migrations’ (Triandafyllidou, 2024: 6). And the phenomenon called migration discerned as a ‘natural, continuous, and spatial phenomenon, where people move from one place to another, alone or with others, for a short visit or a long period’ (Singh, A. D. & Rajan, S. I. (2015). Politics of Migration. Indian Emigration in a Globalized World. Routledge: 1). These migrants who moved to other geographical locations and cultures, historically cultivated a profound impact on the ecology, way of life, and social, political, economic, and religious systems of the places they made as home. Migration is perceived as one of the major modus operandi for the expansion of political systems, religious systems, and economic systems. Migration built ancient empires such as those of the Greeks, Romans, Mesopotamians, Inca, Indus, and Zhou; and the migration history of the Vikings and the Crusaders also occupied an important position in the history of human mobility. The dissemination of Abrahamic religions such as Christianity and Islam or religions of Indian origin such as Hinduism and Buddhism was through the migration and propagation of those doctrines by their adherents around the globe. And, as we all know, industrial capitalism spread through the European colonial enterprise. From the historical pieces of evidence, we can notice that migration existed ‘undeniably since the dawn of time, yet migration flows intensified during specific intervals—for example, the expansion of European colonialism from 1500 to 1900, the emergence and extension of industrial capitalism from 1750 to the present, world wars, decolonization, and regional wars, and the neoliberal restrictions on human mobility through strict border controls’ (Menjivar et al., 2019: 3). During the colonial period, there was a global rise in the expansion of human migration. Probably, one of the predominant migration events during the colonial era was the transportation of slaves from the African continent and indentured labour from China, India, and Japan (see Kumar, A. (2012). A history of indentured labor migration. In Workers and labour in a globalized capitalism (pp. 22–37). Routledge.; Amrith, 2011). Europe, too witnessed large-scale migrations during colonial times, as Coser writes, ‘European expansion was also associated with large-scale voluntary resettlement from Europe, particularly to the colonies of settlement, the dominions, and the Americas, and the great mercantile powers—Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and France—all promoted settlement of their nationals abroad, not just of workers but also peasants, dissident soldiers, convicts, and orphans’ (Coser, 2007: 3). The twentieth century witnessed the large-scale migration of people to industrialized America and developed western European countries, and from 1970s onwards to the Gulf countries which have encountered the oil boom. The phenomenon called Globalization further accelerated human migration. Therefore, global migration has had an impact on every phase and every region of the world.