(Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project 9
4. Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems 13
5. I. Introduction
6. Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction 19
7. Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle‑Ground? 35
8. II. Identities and Boundaries
9. “So, now I am Eritrean”: Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility 41
10. Stigmatised Mobility and the Everyday Politics of (In)visibility: The Intricate Pathways of Palestinians in Tel Aviv 59
11. From One Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank 75
12. III. Imagination and Time
13. (Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece 95
14. On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Home-Longing, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility 113
15. Mobility in a Congealed Room? 129
16. Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century 145
17. IV. Gendered Im/mobilities
18. From the “Periphery” to the “Centre”: Cross-Border Marriages between Mainland Chinese Women and Hong Kong Men 165
19. Dislocating Punjabiyat: Gendered Mobilities among Indian Diasporas in Italy 183
20. V. Virtual Im/mobilities
21. “The World Has no Limits, so Why Should You?”: Migration through Marriage in Times of Increasing Digitalization and Securitization of Borders 209
22. Virtual Im/mobilities: Three Ethnographic Examples of Socialised Media Usage, Civic Empowerment and Coded Publics 223
23. VI. Fixations within Mobility and Multilocality
24. The Economic Diaspora: The Triple Helix of Im/mobilisation in the Hype about Migration and Development 245
25. The Experience of Multilocal Living: Mobile Immobilities or Immobile Mobilities? 265
26. Conceptual Notes on the Freedom of Movement and Bounded Mobilities 283
27. List of Authors 291