Historians have recognized the importance of migrations in global, national, transnational, regional and local histories. Studies of Black migrations is a relatively new field of studies in Latin America, in part, because of Latin American’s struggle in recognizing the protagonism of its Black population in history, as much as in acknowledging the prevalence of racist ideologies in their culture and politics, with exception of the West Indies. This panel aims to contribute to studies of Black migrations in a transnational perspective, with views from diverse perspectives on how populations have transited between regions, and how those migrations influenced politics, the economy, cultures and societies. For centuries, the official history of Latin America has pushed the histories of black immigrants to the margins, keeping them in the shadows, denying their importance in the construction of the modern world. The works reunited here discusses the movement of Black workers, enslaved in Brazil, and after emancipation in the Caribbean, and from the West Indies to Brazil, as they pursued a better life for themselves and for their families. In the process of this transit, we can identify patters in economic development, social relations and cultural transformations. Four scholars from diverse institutions, in Brazil (Amazonas and Rio de Janeiro), Barbados and Canada, offer different perspectives within the topic of migrations, contributing to amplify the idea of the Great Migrations in a continental perspective.