Offers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobility. Foregrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Demonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical study. Brings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernity. Emphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.