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that, despite its abundance of facts and figures, there is not a single table, graph or map – neither here nor in the rest of the book. Chapter 4 moves us closer to the author’s own research interests in life-course and well-being approaches to understanding the migration experience. The essence here is migrants’ everyday lived experiences traced through their trajectories from country of origin, through arrival, to their often problematic pathway to “integration” within host communities. Empirically the focus remains on Britain, with some comparisons made using the Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX, but here wrongly abbreviated as MIPX). The discussion on the multidimensional nature of well-being, introduced in Chapter 1 and again at the end of Chapter 4, is the core focus of Chapter 5, on migrant health and well-being. Closer to the author’s own research, carried out within the Scottish context, this chapter is the book’s strongest in terms of depth of analysis, yet it throws up two key problems in the process. The first is the way that it “unbalances” a bookwhose title and initial remit presage a global-scale treatment. Hence we hear nothing about the thirty-six per cent of global migrants who move within the global South. The second problem is the particular “take” on wellbeing that the author pursues, which is heavily biased towards the health dimension, and plays down psychosocial and emotional aspects. A significant omission is any reference to the work of Katie Wright, the main scholar researching migrant well-being. A minor niggle is an inconsistency in the spelling of this key term – “wellbeing” in the title and blurbs, “well-being” in the main body of the text. Chapter 6 concludes the book by reinforcing its key messages although, in doing so, tends to repetition. Who, then, should read this book? Postgraduates will find little to stretch their understanding, except those interested in the “health and well-being” approach of Chapter 5. Undergraduates and professionals could find the book useful, but three things could be improved: the correction of errors, the addition of tables and visuals, and a more selective approach to referencing. As it stands, 116 pages of text are followed by 32 pages of references – another example of the lack of balance which has been my main critique of the book.