Buku ini memuat makalah-makalah mengenai transmigrasi dan di tulis oleh ilmuan, tokoh, pengamat dan pencinta transmigrasi yang memberi gambaran yang jelas mengenai jalannya penyelenggaraan transmigrasi selama 80 tahun di Indonesia.
Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were voluntary, others were forced; they helped to c…