After noting similarities between 1930s Europe and the Western political climate today, this article probes the looming surplus status of migrants fleeing crises in their countries of departure who confront popular animus and border closures in their countries of arrival. The article examines the investments that citizens have in four key border functions of contemporary states, to see which investments lead citizens to deny border-crossing strangers the right to thrive or even survive in some concrete place on Earth. Given that economic displacement at home can spur citizens to repudiate strangers displaced from elsewhere, the article recommends forging an alliance of all those deemed surplus to society to help overcome the citizen/stranger divide.
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