Date: 2024
Type: Contribution to book
How global is international mobility?
Ettore RECCHI and Mirna SAFI (eds), Handbook of human mobility and migration, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2023, Elgar Handbooks in Migration, pp. 94-112
DEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel, RECCHI, Ettore, How global is international mobility?, in Ettore RECCHI and Mirna SAFI (eds), Handbook of human mobility and migration, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2023, Elgar Handbooks in Migration, pp. 94-112
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How global is international mobility? The answer to this short question has—despite its seeming simplicity—been obscured by how the issue of international mobility was treated in parts of the social sciences. There has been a tendency, particularly in globalization research, to argue that physical space has a lessening or even vanishing role in structuring human activity and that all international mobility tends to be global. For example, in the 1970s, Toffler (1970: 91) talked about the “demise of geography”, alleging that in contrast to the nomads of the past who were bound by place, “the new nomads of today leave the physical structure behind”. Similarly, Held and McGrew (2003: 3) argued that “the constraints of social time and geographical space, vital coordinates of modern social life, no longer appear to impose insuperable barriers to many forms of social interaction or organization”. Numerous other terms, such as “time-space compression” (Harvey 1989), “collapse of space” (Kirsch 1995), “shrinking world” (Allen and Hamnett 1995), “deterritorialization” (Appadurai 1996), “collapse of time and distance” (Koehn and Rosenau 2002: 105), and “increasing emancipation from space” (Schroer 2006) have been proposed to describe the very matter.
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Published online: January 2024
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76323
ISBN: 9781839105777
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
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