Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly mobile and interconnected world of individual opportunities. This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility from the perspective of social inequalities and global hierarchies.

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.

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Miriam Gutekunst is completing her Ph.D 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 Ph.D candidate in social anthropology. Sabina Leoncini obtained her Ph.D 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. Irene Götz is a full professor of European ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.