This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly
restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting
migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it
challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises
commonplace distinctions between `migrants' and `workers'.
Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these
categories have been constructed and mobilised within
representations of a `migrant crisis' and a `welfare crisis' to facilitate
capitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to
propose alternative understandings of the relationship between
borders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.
