Lyndon Johnson signs an immigration law that unexpected launches a new age of mass migration. The number of immigrants more than quadruples over the next half-century to 45 million.

Migration to rich countries has nearly tripled in three decades, driven by a population boom in the developing world and rising inequality.

Rosalie and her husband, Chris, move to Abu Dhabi, where nearly the entire private workforce is foreign-born.

The defeat of George Bush’s ``comprehensive’’ plan signals rising opposition to immigration among conservatives.

Rosalie, 41, moves to Texas with her husband and three young children.

Rosalie buys a house in the Houston suburbs, achieving in three years a milestone that once took three generations.

The number of global migrants hits 248 million, a rise of more than 40 percent since the turn of the century. Remittances total $450 billion.

Donald Trump is elected president after calling Mexicans ``rapists’’ and pledging to build a border wall. Backlash against migration fuels the British vote to the leave the E.U.

The immigrant share of the U.S. population, 13.7 percent, reaches highest level in a century.