"Taking as its key concepts liminality and contacts zones this volume shows how migrants, mediators and ties changed, and moved back and forth between being visible and invisible, or both at the same time. Together the contributions to this volume bring out what the rules and rituals of engagement, disengagement and re-engament were on the way from ‘here’ to ‘there’, thus taking a novel approach to transatlantic migration between 1850-1950."
— Marlou Schrover, Leiden University