We recently spoke with Thomas Nail, an associate professor at the University of Denver, to talk about his recent book "The Figure of the Migrant." In it, Nail develops a theory of what he calls kinopolitics and argues that the migrant has become the "political figure of our time." "Rather than viewing migration as the exception to the rule of political fixity and citizenship," his publisher writes, "Thomas Nail reinterprets the history of political power from the perspective of the movement that defines the migrant in the first place." Eugene Wolters: You develop a theory of kinopolitics, or the politics of movement. Could you briefly describe what this means, and why it's important? Thomas Nail: This is the one of the more technical aspects of the book, so I would like to just say briefly, for those who have not read it, what the main motivation and thesis of the book is before we get into kinopolitics. The thesis of The Figure of the Migrant is that the migrant is the political