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Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept 定义运动性：概念的使用、操作和限制

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2449515

Emérence Guitton , Laurent Eisenman , Caroline Guerin , Marc Potel , Alain Somat

The aim of this review is to examine the definition and use of the concept of motility. Based on published and unpublished literature in the humanities and social sciences to date, the PRISMA method has been used. The Google Scholar electronic database was consulted in French and English. This concept has been the subject of empirical research and theoretical criticism. Among the 60 references selected, the literature reveals changes in the definition of motility and criticisms of the scope and measurement of the concept. Motility corresponds to an entity’s ability to move from one place to another within a social and spatial space. It can be used to study motivations for travel and inequalities in mobility, depending on socio-demographic conditions and context. This concept is widely applied to qualitative studies, and less so to quantitative ones. Its definition has been enriched between 2002 and the present day. Its three-dimensional composition (access, skills, appropriation) remains the subject of consensus, although there are divergences between the theory and its operationalisation. Other questions about the link between mobility and motility remain unanswered. Finally, control plays a key role in motility, while influencing mobility choices and experiences with predictive potential for daily mobility.

这篇综述的目的是检查运动概念的定义和使用。基于迄今为止在人文社会科学领域发表和未发表的文献，采用了PRISMA方法。以法文和英文咨询谷歌Scholar电子数据库。这一概念一直是实证研究和理论批评的主题。在选定的60篇参考文献中，文献揭示了运动性定义的变化以及对该概念的范围和测量的批评。运动性对应于实体在社交和空间空间中从一个地方移动到另一个地方的能力。根据社会人口条件和背景，它可用于研究旅行动机和流动性不平等。这个概念广泛应用于定性研究，而较少应用于定量研究。从2002年到现在，它的定义得到了丰富。它的三维构成（获取、技能、挪用）仍然是共识的主题，尽管在理论和操作之间存在分歧。关于移动性和运动性之间联系的其他问题仍然没有答案。最后，控制在运动中发挥关键作用，同时影响运动选择和体验，具有预测日常运动的潜力。

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Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter 情感、代理和移动性：收容所的技能和秘密

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2449008

Terri-Anne Teo

Migrant shelters are political spaces illuminating im/mobilities, the complexities of social networks and waiting experiences among temporary migrant workers. Situated within theories of mobilities, agency and affect, this article addresses oft-overlooked emotional labour that exceeds and exists within practices of decision-making and knowledge-production. Based on interviews at a shelter for migrant domestic workers in Singapore, I argue that affective agencies like fear and hope complicate ‘acts’ of mobility like fleeing and seeking employment, and ‘acts’ of resistance such as reporting employers and claims-making. This article describes decision-making as a learned process through shared experiences at the shelter, which homes a collective of migrant domestic workers from different countries, living and working together. Knowledge transpires about and within the terrain of control that is the migration regime, with connections built on shared financial anxieties, homesickness and the domestic life of the shelter. Simultaneously, pride around knowledge-production through tactics, skills and languages learned at the shelter fill understandings of waiting spaces as places of subject-formation and collective agency.

移民庇护所是一个政治空间，揭示了临时移民工人的流动性、社会网络的复杂性和等待经历。在流动性、代理和影响理论的框架下，本文讨论了在决策和知识生产实践中超越并存在的、经常被忽视的情绪劳动。根据在新加坡一家移民家庭佣工收容所的采访，我认为，恐惧和希望等情感因素使逃离和找工作等流动“行为”，以及举报雇主和提出索赔等抵抗“行为”变得复杂。这篇文章将决策描述为一个通过在庇护所分享经验而学习的过程，庇护所是来自不同国家的移民家庭工人的集体，他们一起生活和工作。知识在移民制度的控制范围内传播，建立在共同的经济焦虑、思乡之情和庇护所的家庭生活之上。与此同时，通过在收容所学习的策略、技能和语言来产生知识的自豪感填补了人们对等待空间作为主体形成和集体代理场所的理解。

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Practices of urban walking: ethnographies of walking ‘in action’#* 城市步行的实践：“行动中”步行的民族志#*

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2456297

Jonas Larsen

Drawing on practice theory and non-representational geography, this article advances the literature on embodied walking by analysing the often-overlooked mundane micro-actions, activities, and things that enable and make up practices and spaces of walking. This article gives a lively non-representational empirical account of how walking activities take place in specific locations, thus trying to unpack how this ‘almost instinctively performed’ practice is accomplished. The first part establishes a theoretical account of what a sensory account of walking practices and spaces must entail. The second part crafts ethnographies of place-specific walking activities. Third, I discuss some common themes regarding walking environments and walking as a sensory practice across three cases, in contrast to running and cycling.

在实践理论和非表征地理学的基础上，本文通过分析经常被忽视的平凡的微动作、活动和事物来促进和构成行走的实践和空间，从而推进了具体化行走的文献。这篇文章给出了一个生动的非具象的经验描述，说明行走活动是如何在特定的地点发生的，从而试图解开这种“几乎本能地进行”的练习是如何完成的。第一部分建立了一个关于步行实践和空间必须包含的感官账户的理论账户。第二部分是对特定地点步行活动的民族志研究。第三，我在三个案例中讨论了一些关于步行环境和步行作为一种感官练习的共同主题，与跑步和骑自行车形成对比。

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Supply-chain infrastructure as architecture: a case study of Amazon in Darlington, UK 供应链基础设施作为体系结构：以英国达灵顿的亚马逊为例

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2477173

Joel Maddock-James

Using its ‘fulfilment centre’ in Darlington in the North East of England as a case study, this article first assesses Amazon’s existing arrangement in the UK economy, pointing to the spatial concentration of distribution centres that makes up its fulfilment network in this area. It frames Amazon’s decade-long growth as an expansionary fix to the problems of saturation and congestion that inundate the Golden Triangle of industrial logistics elsewhere in the country. It then illuminates the business of logistics by documenting the economic arrangements brokered by multiple actors that propelled the development into motion. It recognises Amazon as the ultimate beneficiaries of recent economic turmoil by investigating how platform power allowed them to ride out recession in becoming providers of last-mile delivery services. Finally, once the various scales of governance that need to be leveraged for the space-making to occur have been established, it finishes by returning to the town of Darlington to grapple with the construction of Amazon’s fulfilment centre there. Altogether, this article argues that through its logistical network Amazon is erecting a supply-chain infrastructure as architecture, which establishes the importance of mobile horizontality to the dominance of vertical enterprises like this logistics and e-commerce giant.

以其在英格兰东北部达灵顿的“履行中心”为例，本文首先评估了亚马逊在英国经济中的现有安排，指出了构成该地区履行网络的配送中心的空间集中。它将亚马逊长达十年的增长描述为对饱和和拥堵问题的扩张性解决方案，这些问题淹没了该国其他地方的工业物流金三角。然后，通过记录推动发展进入运动的多个参与者所促成的经济安排，阐明了物流业务。该报告承认亚马逊是最近经济动荡的最终受益者，调查了平台力量如何让亚马逊在成为最后一英里配送服务提供商的过程中安然度过衰退。最后，一旦建立了各种各样的治理规模，需要利用这些规模来实现空间制造，它就会回到达灵顿镇，在那里努力建设亚马逊的配送中心。总之，这篇文章认为，通过其物流网络，亚马逊正在建立一个供应链基础设施作为架构，这确立了移动横向对像这个物流和电子商务巨头这样的垂直企业的主导地位的重要性。

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“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023 “为尊严而旅行”：2023年10月7日之后巴勒斯坦流动制度的导航

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2456711

Filippo Torre

In the occupied West Bank, the aftermath of the Israeli war on Gaza, combined with the simultaneous offensive by the settlers’ movement, triggered a wave of violence and economic breakdown, leading to a sharp deterioration of living conditions. This article tracks the escape routes, particularly those leading to Europe, which were followed by a group of Palestinians from the northern West Bank city of Nablus after 7 October 2023, exploring the discourses and meanings they ascribe to their migration attempts in a context in which settler colonialism has been showing its worst side. In the West Bank, Palestinians seeking to flee to Europe face significant limitations regarding formal and regular channels to travel and resettle elsewhere. This article explores the complex and nuanced attitudes of West Bank Palestinians towards mobility regimes as well as their ability to navigate these constraints and opportunities as a form of adaptation to worsening living conditions after 7 October. In this context, one way to challenge and circumvent mobility regimes relies on international solidarity with Palestine, which can allow would-be travellers to convert their social and symbolic capital into tangible support to facilitate mobility.

在被占领的西岸，以色列对加沙的战争的后果，加上定居者运动同时发动的进攻，引发了一波暴力和经济崩溃，导致生活条件急剧恶化。本文追踪了逃离路线，特别是通往欧洲的路线，2023年10月7日之后，一群巴勒斯坦人从西岸北部城市纳布卢斯（Nablus）逃离，探讨了他们在殖民主义表现出最糟糕一面的背景下，移民尝试的话语和意义。在西岸，寻求逃往欧洲的巴勒斯坦人在旅行和在其他地方重新定居的正式和正常渠道方面面临重大限制。本文探讨了西岸巴勒斯坦人对流动性制度的复杂而微妙的态度，以及他们驾驭这些限制和机会的能力，作为适应10月7日之后日益恶化的生活条件的一种形式。在这种情况下，挑战和规避流动制度的一种方法是依靠国际社会与巴勒斯坦的团结，这可以使潜在的旅行者将其社会和象征性资本转化为促进流动的有形支持。

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Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia 青年流动中的多节奏转换：新西兰和澳大利亚中国打工度假者的暂停、分裂和纠缠

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2481307

Luyi Ye

Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, this article focuses on the complex spatio-temporal dynamics of transnational youth mobility. This study explores the mobility polyrhythms of Chinese working holiday makers (WHMs), shaped by the free yet precarious rhythms of temporary youth labor migration, and the fast-paced, disciplining rhythms of China’s compressed modernity. Through ethnographic observation and interviews with 44 participants, I capture ‘suspension’, ‘fragmentation’, and ‘entanglement’ as important rhythmic transitions in the polyrhythm of Chinese WHMs’ mobilities. This rhythmanalysis reveals how young migrants from a compressed-modernity society navigated between multiple rhythms and socioeconomic patterns to experience and negotiate their uncertain mobile transitions to adulthood in the digital era. By extending rhythmanalysis into migration and mobility contexts, this research contributes a dynamic approach to conceptualising the non-linear and staggered interactions among multiple spaces, temporalities, and social forces in contemporary youth mobility.

受亨利·列斐伏尔节奏分析的启发，本文关注青年跨国流动的复杂时空动态。本研究探讨了中国打工度假者（whm）的流动多节奏，这种流动多节奏是由临时青年劳动力流动的自由而不稳定的节奏和中国被压缩的现代性的快节奏、有纪律的节奏所塑造的。通过对44位参与者的民族志观察和访谈，我发现“悬浮”、“碎片化”和“纠缠”是中国女性流动多节奏中重要的节奏转换。这种节奏分析揭示了来自压缩现代性社会的年轻移民如何在多种节奏和社会经济模式之间导航，以体验和协商他们在数字时代向成年的不确定移动过渡。通过将节奏分析扩展到迁移和流动语境中，本研究提供了一种动态的方法来概念化当代青年流动中多个空间、时间和社会力量之间的非线性和交错的相互作用。

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Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin 归属导航：新冠肺炎（后）柏林期间日本艺术家的流动性

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2449519

Susanne Klien , Cornelia Reiher

This article explores the post-migration mobilities of Japanese migrant artists in Berlin to contribute to scholarship on creative mobility. By focusing on non-Western artists, we add a more nuanced understanding of the migration-mobility nexus to this scholarship. Our findings reveal that even ‘privileged’ migrants from the Global North, who are typically seen as benefiting from mobility, face forms of social and economic precarity in their everyday lives. The study examines the tension between mobility capital, which frames mobility as an opportunity for enrichment, and mobility risk, where movement entails significant vulnerabilities. Based on ethnographic research, including interviews with 32 Japanese migrant artists in Berlin, we investigate how Japanese artists in Berlin negotiate feelings of belonging through mobilities to balance their professional and personal lives, lives that were further complicated through the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that mobilities are not only a means to achieve career goals, but also to navigate multiple belongings and to cope with mobility induced risks and vulnerabilities in migrant artists’ lives. Overall, this research expands current understandings of mobility by analyzing how precarity and belonging intersect for non-Western migrants in Europe.

本文探讨了日本移民艺术家在柏林的后移民流动，以期对创造性流动的学术研究有所贡献。通过关注非西方艺术家，我们对移民-流动关系的理解更加细致入微。我们的研究结果表明，即使是来自全球北方的“特权”移民，他们通常被视为受益于流动性，在日常生活中也面临着各种形式的社会和经济不稳定。该研究考察了流动性资本和流动性风险之间的紧张关系，前者将流动性定义为致富的机会，后者将流动性视为严重的脆弱性。基于民族志研究，包括对32位在柏林的日本移民艺术家的采访，我们调查了柏林的日本艺术家如何通过流动来平衡他们的职业和个人生活，这些生活因COVID-19大流行而进一步复杂化。我们认为，流动不仅是实现职业目标的一种手段，也是流动艺术家在生活中驾驭多重财产和应对流动带来的风险和脆弱性的一种手段。总的来说，本研究通过分析欧洲非西方移民的不稳定性和归属感如何相互交织，扩展了目前对流动性的理解。

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Precarious workers on the move the migrantisation of Italian healthcare professionals in Germany 流动的不稳定工人意大利医疗保健专业人员在德国的移民

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2481313

Gennaro Veneziano Labanca , Elena Fontanari , Elisa Sala

This paper explores the phenomenon of ‘everyday xenoracism’ experienced by Italian healthcare workers who migrated to Germany following the 2008 financial crisis. Despite being white and from the EU, these workers face a distinct form of discrimination – ‘xenoracism’ – rooted in microaggressions and boundary-making practices at both the workplace and in daily life. The study highlights how this discrimination becomes internalized, leading to a form of self-precarization among Italian healthcare workers. These workers, typically seen as ‘expatriates’ rather than ‘migrants’, undergo a process of deskilling and downgrading within the broader transformation of the global care chain, which contributes to a phenomenon we named ‘care waste’. This precarization is further reinforced by the new form of manpower recruitment implemented in Germany (the Gastarbeit 2.0 model), which facilitates mobility but also perpetuates inequalities. The paper argues that intra-EU mobility, especially within the context of post-crisis Europe, does not equate to social mobility and instead reflects deeper structural inequalities tied to geographic and economic disparities. Ultimately, it provides a nuanced understanding of how mobility, discrimination, and precarization intersect in shaping the lives of migrant healthcare workers.

本文探讨了2008年金融危机后移居德国的意大利医护人员所经历的“日常性冷淡”现象。尽管这些工人是来自欧盟的白人，但他们面临着一种独特的歧视形式——“排外主义”，这种歧视植根于工作场所和日常生活中的微侵犯和划定界限的做法。该研究强调了这种歧视是如何内化的，导致意大利医护人员的一种自我不稳定。这些工人通常被视为“外籍人士”，而不是“移民”，他们在全球护理链的更广泛转型中经历了一个去技能化和降级的过程，这导致了一种我们称之为“护理浪费”的现象。德国实施的新形式的人力招聘（Gastarbeit 2.0模式）进一步加剧了这种不稳定现象，这促进了流动性，但也使不平等现象永久化。本文认为，欧盟内部的流动性，特别是在危机后的欧洲背景下，并不等同于社会流动性，而是反映了与地理和经济差异相关的更深层次的结构性不平等。最后，它提供了一个细致入微的理解流动性，歧视和不稳定如何在塑造流动医疗工作者的生活相交。

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Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions 社区驱动的流动性实践：对设计可持续流动性干预措施的影响

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2477171

Saga-Sofia Santala , Jani Tartia , Merja Honkanen

A sustainable urban mobility transition often revolves around questions related to technical advancements, while there has been less focus on understanding the social aspects of (un)sustainable mobility behaviour. This research investigates daily mobility practices through a mobile ethnographic study in Espoo, Finland. By bringing subjective stories and experiences into the core of examining what kinds of mobility practices are formed through social relations and reciprocal interactions between close social community members (family and friends), the findings demonstrate that achieving a sustainable urban mobility transition is as much a social and practice-based challenge as it is a technical one. Different interdependencies between close community members, as identified in the study, set different kinds of spatio-temporal boundaries for subjective daily mobility practices. The paper highlights the need to understand how practices are socially formed to design effective interventions towards sustainable mobility.

可持续的城市交通转型通常围绕着与技术进步有关的问题，而对理解（非）可持续交通行为的社会方面的关注较少。本研究通过芬兰埃斯波的移动民族志研究调查了日常移动实践。通过将主观故事和经验带入核心，考察通过社会关系和亲密社会社区成员（家人和朋友）之间的相互作用形成的移动性实践类型，研究结果表明，实现可持续的城市移动性转型既是一项基于社会和实践的挑战，也是一项技术挑战。研究发现，亲密社区成员之间不同的相互依赖关系为主观的日常流动行为设定了不同的时空边界。本文强调需要了解实践是如何在社会上形成的，以设计有效的干预措施，实现可持续的流动性。

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Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration 跨国流动中的非正式战略及其对欧洲生活方式移民的影响

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2473429

Axel Eriksson , Solène Prince , Helene Balslev Clausen

Informality encompasses a wide range of unregulated activities that has usually been associated with the activities of marginalised groups. However, it has been recognised that affluent lifestyle migrants use informal strategies to pursue a good life across borders. How lifestyle migrants resort to informality and how it affects their lives is less well understood. To fill this gap, we present findings from 22 qualitative interviews with Swedish lifestyle migrants in Portugal. Lifestyle migrants can navigate webs of (in)formalities thanks to their privileged position as citizens of the European Union. First, lifestyle migrants gradually appropriate informality, which illustrates their privileged use of informal strategies to establish themselves in a new country. Second, lifestyle migrants never have to settle down in one place because they can employ informal strategies across countries to support their desired life in one of them. Finally, lifestyle migrants end up facing a paradox of immobility because their use of informal strategies to retain connections between countries creates dependency and immobility. Not unlike marginalised groups, lifestyle migrants exploit gaps in formal frameworks of the global mobility regime. Informality is intertwined with the privileged pursuit of a momentarily better life abroad and is thus essential to lifestyle migration.

非正式性包括范围广泛的不受管制的活动，这些活动通常与边缘化群体的活动有关。然而，人们已经认识到，富裕的生活方式移民使用非正式的策略来追求跨境的美好生活。生活方式移民如何诉诸非正式，以及它如何影响他们的生活，目前还不太清楚。为了填补这一空白，我们对在葡萄牙生活的瑞典移民进行了22次定性访谈。作为欧盟公民的特权地位，生活方式移民可以在手续网中穿行。首先，生活方式移民逐渐适应非正式，这说明他们有特权使用非正式策略在一个新的国家站稳脚跟。其次，生活方式移民不必在一个地方定居，因为他们可以在不同的国家采用非正式的策略来支持他们在其中一个国家的理想生活。最后，生活方式移民最终面临着一个不流动的悖论，因为他们使用非正式的策略来保持国家之间的联系，造成了依赖和不流动。与边缘化群体不同，生活方式移民利用了全球流动机制正式框架中的漏洞。不拘礼节与追求暂时在国外过上更好生活的特权交织在一起，因此对生活方式移民来说是必不可少的。

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