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I do not agree there are only two options.
Option 3 is to provide good living standards for people where they are. The world is not large enough for every human to be migratory.
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The world is huge.
It's massive.
But if we don't want migration, we should really stop bombing the hell out of other people's countries, we really should stop externalising the costs of globalisation to other countries just so that we can enjoy the profits of that in our country.
In a way, you've just described a policy so far left-wing and unrealistic that even I don't go there... a form of global communism.
It's not going to happen, and we (the UK) enjoys the profits of a global capitalist system far too much to want to really care about anyone other than ourselves. The very policies that help us have good lives (and to pay for lovely bicycles) are the same policies that harm other countries.
For us to enjoy our profits and wealth, immigration is the price.
And again... what are you going to do? Stand at the border with a gun? Because we have no political or economic motivation to provide good living standards for people where they are, and those people are already moving in huge numbers.
Velocio
If that was addressed to me, I haven't subscribed to any utopia.
There are issues, and those issues are real. They can be tackled, we can identify the underlying cause and address those things, or we can ignore those and do superficial other things.
Immigration is not going to be stopped by Brexit. Because ultimately, we're not willing to put guns on borders.
This is a good thing. But the question is, what then do we do? Either you make it work for you, or it works against you.
I don't see anyone currently trying to make immigration work for the country. Which is unfortunate, for a country that has always historically benefited greatly from the numerous waves of mass immigration that have happened.