Bill Jordan is Honorary Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Plymouth, UK. He has authored 30 books on politics, economic and social policy, migration and social work, including Authoritarianism and How to Counter It (2019), Automation and Human Solidarity (2020) and The Age of Disintegration: The Politics and Economics of Division (2020). He held visiting professorships in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

1.Introduction: Migration, Integration and Pandemics-Historical Perspectives

2. Solidarities Under Conditions of Mobility

3. Global Capitalism, Inequality and Insecurity

4. Family, Health and Well-Being

5.Terrorism and Instability.

6. Policies for Sustainability

7. Alternative Scenarios or Back to the Future? The Case of the UK

8. The Growth of Coercion

9. Conclusions