David Feldman is Reader in History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture 1840-1914 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994) and coeditor of Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe 1880-2004 (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2006). He is currently completing a book called The Rights of Strangers: Migrants, Immigrants and Welfare in England from 1600 to the present. Together with colleagues in Paris he is writing a comparative study of migration policies in Britian, France and Italy in the inter-war period.