The 'problem' of migration haunts Europe today. Spectres of floods of migrants
are deployed in justification of the ever tougher walls of what some observers
fear is becoming 'Fortress Europe'. In response, a growing critical literature
on nationalism and racism in Europe has arisen. However, much of this discussion
has remained eclectic and there is a lack of attention to the overall social
processes within which migrations occur. This book fills a gap in the present
literature on the European Union and gathers together some of the richest recent
Marxist-inspired writing on migration. It suggests that immigration is not the
problem it is frequently made out to