Download or read book The Figure of the Migrant written by Thomas Nail and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when more people than ever are being constrained to move for political, economic, and environmental reasons, this book provides a new political theory of migration, one based on the social primacy of movement.