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.

• Contents 6
• Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project 10
• Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems 14
• I. Introduction 20
• Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction 20
• Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle‑Ground? 36
• II. Identities and Boundaries 42
• “So, now I am Eritrean”: Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility 42
• Stigmatised Mobility and the Everyday Politics of (In)visibility: The Intricate Pathways of Palestinians in Tel Aviv 60
• From One Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank 76
• III. Imagination and Time 96
• (Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece 96
• On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Home-Longing, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility 114
• Mobility in a Congealed Room? 130
• Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century 146