Several assumptions rose to mythical status in the town during the forty year period between the first Asian migration and the Oldham Riots.

In Burnaby (a suburb of Vancouver), the Great Blue herons have added, along their regular flight route from lake to ocean, dips for very expensive fish in koi ponds that have come as a byproduct of two decades of East Asian migration to the suburb.

That could revitalize the economy and create a boom of entrepreneurship, but few in Japan seem enthusiastic about that idea, and many seem fatalistic about the waves of Asian migration that bypass Japan and continue on to the United States.

The origins of Asian migration to modern day Kenya lie in the construction of the Uganda railway from 1896 to 1901 when some 32,000 indentured labourers were recruited from British India.

The aim of the research is to explain the relationship between South Asian migration to Bristol and the formation of voluntary associations.

Since the peak of West Indian migration occurred well before that of Asian migration, West Indians have had more opportunity to form families and have children who are, of course, born in Britain.

In the Russian Far East, North Korea's tightly controlled migrant worker system is welcomed by local authorities worried that uncontrolled Asian migration could end 150 years of European dominance here.

The Asian migration is only beginning.

The end of the White Australia Policy brought the first significant Asian migration to Melbourne since the gold rushes, with large numbers of people from Vietnam, Cambodia and China arriving.

Auckland, which has a predominantly high New Zealand European population, as well as one of the highest Polynesian populations in the world, had a dramatic increase in Asian migration during the 1900s.