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Introduction. Tangled mobilities in the age of transnational migration

par Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion
Editeur scientifique Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion ;Liu-Farrer, Gracia
Référence Tangled mobilities. Places, affects, and personhood across social spheres in Asian migration, Berghahn Books, New York, Vol. 12, page (1-25)
Publication Publié, 2022

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This Introduction to the edited volume Tangled Mobilities presents its observation that the dynamic spatial movements of people across state frontiers take place alongside the circulation of affects and the transformation of individual’s personhood as they position themselves within their cross-border social spaces. This situation entails emotional, social, and economic challenges that migrants and their families confront or live with. In recent years, scholarly works have illuminated these challenges tied to the various forms of mobilities that people experience, such as spatial, geographical, social, and intimate mobilities. Existing studies have most often examined these mobilities separately, overlooking thereby their interconnectedness or tanglement. As migration becomes increasingly complex over time, it creates social conditions in which people undergo different crisscrossing, intersecting mobilities during different stages in their life course. To analyse these complex conditions, this Introduction piece proposes the plural lens of "tangled mobilities" - a dynamic, unfolding process in which elements, components, and forms of mobility exist alongside, intersect with, and overlap one another in complex ways, resulting in stasis and movements across different life dimensions (social, legal, intimate, sexual, digital, and temporal).