The new mobilities paradigm involves analyzing diverse intersecting networks, relations, flows and circulation, and not fixed places.
Mimi Sheller and John Urry
Is Europe a borderless space, or a space where borders are shifted, hierarchized, and differentiated?
According to Doreen Massey, mobility and the control of mobility are dimensions of power: some groups organize flows, while others are subjected to them or excluded from them. Europe constitutes a prime example of this tension: it organizes free movement within its borders while simultaneously reinforcing selection and control at its external borders.












