The Final Migration and Our Next World

A third of humanity is on the move. History’s largest migration is creating new urban spaces that are this century’s focal points of conflict and change — unseen districts of rapid transformation and febrile activity that will reshape our cities and reconfigure our economies.

These Arrival Cities — neighbourhoods and districts created by newcomers — are where the next great economic and cultural boom will be born, or where the next explosion of violence will occur.

The hidden story of our century

In this spectacular book, award-winning author Doug Saunders takes you on a detailed tour of 30 cities and villages on five continents, introducing you to the people and communities whose tragedies and victories are changing the world.

His exhaustive research and investigative discoveries, drawing on the latest developments in scholarship, will change our views of migration, cities, population growth, foreign aid and politics.

Available Now

Order Arrival City through this site now in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, China (simplified and traditional-character editions), Brazil, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, and Finland.

Published by Pantheon in USA, Knopf in Canada, Heinemann in Britain, Karl Blessing Verlag in Germany, Allen & Unwin in Australia, Hangzhou MatrixBook in China, De Bezige Bij in the Netherlands, Éditions du Seuil in France, Éditions du Boréal in Québec, DVS Editora in Brazil and Portugal, Otava Publishing in Finland, Rye Field Publishing in Chinese (complex), and Debate/Mondadori in Spanish-speaking countries.

Read Doug Saunders

Doug writes on international affairs for The Globe and Mail. He has written extensively from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on seven occasions. Follow his writing here, or read his column here.