Regimes of Mobility

Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power

Noel Salazar, Nina Glick Schiller, Noel Salazar, Nina Glick Schiller, Noel B. Salazar, Nina Glick Schiller

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138013032
• eBook ISBN: 9781317747253
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global 'flows' of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are all seen through the same analytical lens. This book builds on, as well as critiques, past and present studies of mobility. In so doing, it challenges conceptual orientations built on binaries of difference that have impeded analyses of the interrelationship between mobility and stasis. These include methodological nationalism, which counterpoises concepts of internal and international movement and native and foreigner, and consequently normalises stasis. Instead, the book proposes a 'regimes of mobility' framework that addresses the relationships between mobility and immobility, localisation and transnational connection, experiences and imaginaries of migration, and rootedness and cosmopolitan openness. Within this framework and its emphasis on social fields of differential power, the various contributors to this collection ethnographically explore the disparities, inequalities, racialised representations and national mythscapes that facilitate and legitimate differential mobility and fixity. Although they examine nation-state building processes, the anthropological analysis is not confined by national boundaries.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe
• 2. The Great Departure: Rethinking National(ist) Common Sense
• 3. Tibetan Peregri-nations: Mobility, Incommensurable Nationalisms and (Un)belonging Athwart the Himalayas
• 4. International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon
• 5. Cultivating Hustlers: The Agrarian Ethos of Soninke Migration
• 6. Development Mobilities: Identity and Authority in an Angolan Development Programme
• 7. Jembe Hero: West African Drummers, Global Mobility and Cosmopolitanism as Status
• 8. Moving Subjects, Stagnant Paradigms: Can the ‘Mobilities Paradigm’ Transcend Methodological Nationalism?
• Index