Despite some impressive contributors to this edited collection, the overall analysis is intellectually poor and even absurd. The idea that immigration - as a challenge to the state - is more significant than international money flows, trafficked prostitutes or drug trafficking, is laughable. The challenge to the nation state (in this particular area of research) comes not from poor immigrants, but from overpaid pseudo-intellectuals. There are very many far better analyses of the phenomenon of immigration, and this over-priced offering should be avoided. It is arrogant, inaccurate and offensive.