This is a highly topical book that helps to place debates around immigration and refugees within a wider context. It challenges opinions and assumptions and explains how modern migration is a fundamental part of increasingly integrated global markets. People are often forced to move - whether by economic circumstances, conflict or environmental conditions - rather than exercising their free will. It demonstrates how receiving countries generally benefit from the arrival of new workers, but the migrants themselves are exposed to greater risks. And it is out of these factors that the struggle for the rights of migrants is becoming increasingly necessary if we are to achieve greater equality and social justice in the future.