THE FIGURE OF THE MIGRANT

This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of mig rations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. Bu t other sorts of changesfrom global tourism to undocumented laborhave led to the fact that to some extent, we are all becoming mig rants. The migrant has become the political figure of our time.Rather than viewing migration as the exception to the rule of politic al fixity ...[Read more]