Bounded Mobilities: Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities (Culture and Social Practice)

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. Contents Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems I. Introduction Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle‐Ground? II. Identities and Boundaries “So, now I am Eritrean”: Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility Stigmatised Mobility and the Everyday Politics of (In)visibility: The Intricate Pathways of Palestinians in Tel Aviv From One Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank III. Imagination and Time (Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Home-Longing, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility Mobility in a Congealed Room? Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century IV. Gendered Im/mobilities From the “Periphery” to the “Centre”: Cross-Border Marriages between Mainland Chinese Women and Hong Kong Men Dislocating Punjabiyat: Gendered Mobilities among Indian Diasporas in Italy V. Virtual Im/mobilities “The World Has no Limits, so Why Should You?”: Migration through Marriage in Times of Increasing Digitalization and Securitization of Borders Virtual Im/mobilities: Three Ethnographic Examples of Socialised Media Usage, Civic Empowerment and Coded Publics VI. Fixations within Mobility and Multilocality The Economic Diaspora: The Triple Helix of Im/mobilisation in the Hype about Migration and Development The Experience of Multilocal Living: Mobile Immobilities or Immobile Mobilities? Conceptual Notes on the Freedom of Movement and Bounded Mobilities List of Authors

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.

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly mobile 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 from the perspective of social inequality and global hierarchies