Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility. This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility with regard to social inequalities and global hierarchies.

About the Author
Miriam Gutekunst is completing her PhD on the meaning of love and marriage in the context of the European Border Regime at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Andreas Hackl is based at the School for Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology. Sabina Leoncini obtained her PhD in 2014 at Florence University, working on mixed education in Jaffa, and her MA in Anthropology in 2008 with a thesis on the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank. Julia Sophia Schwarz has recently done research on the topic of global care work.

Reviews
"An important and timely contribution to mobilities research. Regarding the sophisticated use of language and analysis of the cases, the volume is suitable for researchers or graduate students who have some experience with mobilities literature rather than under graduate students or beginners in the field." Ilkay Tas Gursoy, Anatolia, 05.06.2017 Besprochen in: Contemporary Sociology 46/6 (2018), Emily Rauscher



Book Information
ISBN 9783837631234
Author Miriam Gutekunst
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 992g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 2mm