The Figure of the Migrant

by Thomas Nail

Book Overview

This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. But other sorts of changes-from global tourism to undocumented labor-have led to the fact that to some extent, we are all becoming migrants. The migrant has become the political figure of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804796580
• ISBN13: 9780804796583
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"