Table of Contents

Preface: Migrations without Migrants and Migrants without Migrations
Introduction: The Presence of Migrant-hood and the Absence of Politics
Part I: Atomization: The Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-Hood
Part II: Activity: Atomization through Connection
Part III: Action: The Presence of Politics and the Absence of Migrant-hood

About the Author

Gregory Feldman teaches at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union (2011).

Reviews

"In seeking the consequences of calling specific groups of people 'migrants,' Feldman turns a straightforwardly anthropological question about identity into a searchlight on contemporary politics. His compelling book asks us to pay close attention to what smug politicians perpetrate in the name of high principles and, yes, of good intentions. After reading We Are All Migrants, no one will have an excuse for letting them get away with it."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University "We Are All Migrants is an important statement that is both provocative and sensible, a rare combination. Feldman offers a handsome critique of efforts to speak for others, and his work finds good company alongside boundary-crossing essays by Giorgio Agamben and Julia Kristeva."—Mark Maguire, Maynooth University "Feldman's book makes an important contribution to theorizing and advancing what a truly universal and solidaristic (rather than hegemonic) revolutionary politics might look like, by drawing important conceptual and political connections between phenomena that are all too frequently treated in isolation: global migration and growing disillusionment with liberal party politics We Are All Migrants offers an important counter-narrative to the endlessly proliferating positivist policy responses to 'the problem of migration'."—Edward Wilcox, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology "Gregory Feldman's We Are All Migrants offers an insightful and pressing polemic examining the uncertainty and atomisation which, he argues, characterise the precarious position of both citizens and migrants in neoliberal capitalism. For a book of 117 pages, the text is incredibly rich, drawing widely on critical philosophers and literary figures."—Hamish Reid, Political Studies Review "This book provides for a compelling read, and is a welcome addition to the canon on citizenship, migration and globalisation processes that create and sustain distance between individuals and consequential social space. It also serves as a poignant and necessary reminder that the dividing line between migrant and citizen has become an increasingly blurred one."—Octavius Pinkard, Social Anthropology