ABSTRACT
This final substantive empirical chapter draws together the book’s broader conclusions and argues for what can be learned from carefully listening to migrant lives. Here we try and situate our arguments within the intensification of what we refer to as anti-immigrant times (Massey and Sánchez 2010) and discuss how the ‘migrant crisis’ in 2015 and the Brexit vote to leave the European Union in 2016 is viewed from the perspective of young migrants. We also examine critically the popular adages of anti-migrant sentiment and show how the self-regarding commitments of the ‘host society’ shape the immigration debate within what we call national selfishness. The chapter ends by describing how some of our participants see their futures in London today.
