This chapter advances a systematic critique of contemporary political theory of migration by identifying its dual bias: an epistemological commitment to methodological nationalism and a normative orientation towards the host standpoint. It shows how methodological nationalism privileges sedentariness and state borders, shaping which migration questions appear theoretically relevant. At the normative level, the chapter analyses the language of political theory to identify two dominant expressions of the host standpoint: the benevolent superiority thesis and the alarmist agenda. Together, these perspectives construct migrants as either passive recipients of moral concern or political threats. The chapter’s central contribution is to demonstrate that these biases are structurally embedded and mutually reinforcing, thereby constraining the field’s ability to address domination, exclusion, and vulnerability.