ABSTRACT
In 2010, one country stood out globally for how immigration was reshaping it—the vast majority of its workforce was foreign, many laboring illegally in perilous conditions and low-wage jobs, with virtually no civil society participation. The country was Qatar; neither the United States nor any EU country was among the top 10 countries with the highest share of migrants in their total population. 1 But Qatar is not making news, and neither are other immigration facts, such as that about half of undocumented immigrants in the United States are not running across deserts but overstaying their visas or that most migrant mobility in the European Union is internal, not driven by boatloads of North Africans landing on tiny islands.
