ABSTRACT

This book has deliberately provided more questions than answers. It has done so not only to challenge readers to consider critically these questions, but also because they reflect the realities of migration and citizenship in the early twenty-first century. Today, we have more questions than answers because we are not adequately prepared to face the complex issues at hand. This inadequacy is due to the fact that we are trying to address twenty-first-century problems with a twentieth-century mindset. We still believe too firmly that the world is neatly divided into nation-states, all of whom enjoy sovereignty and control over their borders. We also cling too much to the view that there are citizens and foreigners, that people are either in or out, that there is us and there is them.