Review Strangers in our midst: The political philosophy of immigration David Miller Harvard University Press, 2016, 218pp., ISBN: 9780674088900 Contemporary Political Theory (2017). doi:10.1057/s41296-017-0147-6 Well-reasoned reflection on the challenges that immigration raises has immediate practical importance given the breadth of issues in play, the global scope of immigration, the contentious policy debates that dominate the political landscape, and the consequences such policies have for the well-being and identities of masses of people. David Miller’s political philosophy of immigration provides an accessible, informed, and thoroughgoing defence of immigration control by liberal democratic states, guided by values of weak cosmopolitanism, national self-determination, fairness, and social integration. The ‘strangers in our midst’ are immigrants and refugees that do not yet, and may or may not get to, officially join the country by being permitted to enter our political community and share in our national identity. Compatriot partiality involves commitment to the myth-laden character of national identity, resting on associative obligations we have to fellow citizens in light of our shared relationship. Miller suggests the deep sense of emotional attachment, social bond, and shared experience that features in a strong nation-state tends toward more egalitarian forms of social justice. The considerable identity-defining value modern states generally, and nation-states especially, construct, gives rise to associative obligations and compatriot partiality to protect that value. As members of such states we have reciprocal duties to maintain just political workings through state institutions. This claim assumes that justice promoting, identity conferring, value generating, nation-state based political narratives, structures, and processes exist and should be promoted. As such, we are obligated to ensure their effectiveness by pursuing rights-based principles of justice through the lens of nation-states. Yet if equality among citizens is the primary principle of justice governing relations among domestic citizens and something like global citizenship is acknowledged to be, or is becoming, a basic mode of association, a certain methodological pluralism lends itself to hope for open borders and global justice as increasingly transnational or global forms of identity and solidarity effectively develop. Miller claims that legitimate political authority is one that fosters an intrinsically valuable form of association by enabling compatriots to coexist on terms of justice, Ó 2017 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 1470-8914 Contemporary Political Theory www.palgrave.com/journals