This book responds to global tendencies toward increasinglyrestrictive border controls and populist movements targetingmigrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, itchallenges standard narratives about immigration and problematisescommonplace distinctions between 'migrants' and 'workers'.

Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how thesecategories have been constructed and mobilised withinrepresentations of a 'migrant crisis' and a 'welfare crisis' to facilitatecapitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism topropose alternative understandings of the relationship betweenborders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.