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	Like all distopias, this one is unlikely to come to pass in such a radical form — although it is based on real current trends. The main force undermining it, as in the past, will be the human agency of millions of migrants, as well as other members of both sending and receiving communities, Transnational communities resulting from migration will, through thousands of micro-straw- gies, seek security and humane conditions for their members, By doing this, they will probably become a major flictor undermining the plans ofthe mighty The future will probably be as messy as the past, and all predictions are likely to be wrong, but one thing is clear: there is no return to the neat idea of dosed- off nation-states with homogenous national communities.		Like all distopias, this one is unlikely to come to pass in such a radical form — although it is based on real current trends. The main force undermining it, as in the past, will be the human agency of millions of migrants, as well as other members of both sending and receiving communities, Transnational communities resulting from migration will, through thousands of micro-straw- gies, seek security and humane conditions for their members, By doing this, they will probably become a major flictor undermining the plans ofthe mighty The future will probably be as messy as the past, and all predictions are likely to be wrong, but one thing is clear: there is no return to the neat idea of dosed- off nation-states with homogenous national communities.

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