The Shortest History of Migration

First published 2024 · debut

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Reception

2026
London Review of Books
Reviewed by Ferdinand Mount, 24 September

London Review of Books · 24 September 2026

Modest and Misunderstood

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It is our national and/or racial identity that is being fractured. What underlies the sense of affront is the assumption that the ‘people of England’ are, as it were, a settled…

By Ferdinand Mount

Also reviews Think of England by Paul Kléber Monod and Nation of Strangers by Ece Temelkuran

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Catalogue record

Old Street Publishing, 2024

Publisher: Old Street Publishing, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-913083-44-1 +3

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Publisher: Old Street Publishing, 2024
ISBNs: 978-1-913083-44-1
978-1-913083-73-1
979-8-89303-060-0
979-8-89303-061-7
Editions: Old Street Publishing, 2024 978-1-913083-44-1
Experiment, The, 2025, 304 pages 979-8-89303-060-0
Experiment, The, 2025, 304 pages 979-8-89303-061-7
Author: Goldin, Ian
Statement: The Shortest History of Migration / Ian Goldin.
Records: Open Library

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Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026