This volume brings together a wide array of contributors to provide a global overview of immigration, focusing not only on the impact and role of immigration on the global north, but also on the effect of immigration on the global south and the social and economic factors that give rise to immigration in the first place.

This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and migration. The book includes case studies from Western and Eastern Europe, North America and the Caribbean. It is organized into thematic sections that illustrate how different aspects of migrant marginality have unfolded across several national contexts.

The first section of the book...