Introduction: migration and ethnicity in coalfield history: global perspectives Ad Knotter and David Mayer; 1. Migration and ethnicity in coalfield history: global perspectives Ad Knotter; 2. A Zambian town in colonial Zimbabwe: the 1964 'Wangi Kolia' strike Ian Phimister and Alfred Tembo; 3. Locals and migrants in the coal mining town of Enugu (Nigeria): worker protest and urban identity 1914-1929 Carolyn Brown; 4. Labour control and mobility in Japanese-controlled Fushun coal mine (China), 1907-1932 Limin Teh; 5. The uneven recruitment of Korean miners in Japan in the 1910s and 1920s: employment strategies of the Miike and Chikuho coal mining companies Tom Arents and Norihiko Tsuneishi; 6. The dynamics of race and ethnicity in the US coal industry Joe Trotter; 7. European workers in Brazilian coal mining, Rio Grande do Sul, 1850-1950 Clarice Speranza; 8. Specialists, spies, 'special settlers', and prisoners of war: social frictions in the Kuzbas (USSR), 1920-1950 Julia Landau; 9. Migration, ethnicity, and divisions of labour in the Zonguldak coalfield, Turkey Erol Kahveci; 10. Dissimilarity breeds contempt: ethnic paternalism, foreigners, and the state in Pas-de-Calais coal mining, France, 1920s Philip Slaby; 11. Football, migration, and coal mining in Northern France, 1920s-1980s Marion Fontaine; 12. Integration through sports? Polish migrants in the Ruhr Area, Germany Diethelm Blecking.