This retired academic describes how capitalist markets work their magic on "migrants" who are really economic and political refugees from disasters of capitalist enterprise in Africa.
In Margaret Thatcher’s immortal words, neoliberal economics “is the means; the goal is the soul of man.” In other words, neoliberal economics was to transform society into a mass of soulless creatures whose god would be the market. Masses of refugees would provide the bodies sacrificed to a soulless world. She didn’t say it, but she knew what the effects of her Mephistophelian plan would be—extreme disparity in wealth and poverty. In short, neoliberal ideology focuses on maximizing consumption and production by reducing the role of the state and letting loose the supposedly self-regulatory forces of the market.