Review article
Spatial Mobility and Processes of Deterritorialization and Flexibility of Social Life
Alija Hodžić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3692-4582
; Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This text looks at spatial mobility in the context of today’ s flexible organization of social life. It aims to show that the economy of mobility presents a complex and ambigious process in which migrations are not caused by economic underdevelopment as such, but by destabilized development itself. Also, the idea is to point out the fact that migrants entering global trade, information and production network take part in the (re)shaping of sociospatial
structures of the countries, regions or places – those of their origin or those of their new temporary or permanent residence. In this way, migrants whose mobility comprises across the border activities deconstruct or put in a different perspective the former exclusive
“container society” as the basic framework of activity. The text examines available data on the types of mobility: internal and external migrations (which in the new context take on new forms of mobility – circulation, irregularity, temporariness) and different forms of travel. The conclusion is that contemporary types of mobility, being themselves a product of instability, present an integral part of the unstable and flexible way of life of the “network society” man.
Keywords
mobility; flexibility; deterritorialization; transnationality; container society; migration
Hrčak ID:
61596
URI
Publication date:
2.12.2010.
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