Using cutting-edge academic work on migration and citizenship to address three themes central to current debates - borders and walls, mobility and travel, and belonging - the authors provide new insights into the politics of migration and citizenship in the UK and the US.

Mary Gilmartin is Professor of Geography at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her main research interests are in migration, mobilities and belonging. Patricia Burke Wood is Professor of Geography at York University, Canada. Her main research interests include citizenship, identity and attachment to place. Cian O'Callaghan is Assistant Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His main research interests include creativity and place, neoliberalism, and political contestations over urban vacant spaces.