Migration is rarely absent from the news and arouses political, social cultural and emotional responses which range from compassion to hostility, racism and anti-racism. By exploring migration in the past, it is possible for children to go beyond current issues and appreciate that, rather than being a recent characteristic of the times in which we live, it forms part of our past which stretches back to earliest times. This carries the risk of seeing the past through a twenty-first century perspective and it is necessary to focus on using this study as a means of providing a context for the world in which we live, while appreciating distinctions between the past and present. There are many opportunities to develop this as a topic within the National Curriculum at both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2...