Refugees are on the move around the globe. Prosperous nations are rapidly adjusting their laws to crack down on the so-called ?undeserving.? Australia and Canada have each sought international reputations as humanitarian do-gooders, especially in the area of refugee admissions.

Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation traces the connections between the nation-building tradition of immigration and the challenge of admitting people who do not reflect the national interest of the twenty-first century. Catherine Dauvergne argues that in the absence of the justice standard for...