290139 SE Seminar aus Humangeographie: Translocal Geographies in the Global South (2021W)

The world is on the move. Human mobility - whether voluntary or forced - is both an expression and a driving force of social and ecological transformation processes. On the one hand, increasing mobility results in institutionalized and informal translocal connections between places of origin, transit, and destination, and in intensifying exchange relationships. On the other hand, the governance of human mobility is gaining importance in national and international political discourse and is reflected, for example, in border security regimes. Human mobility and the resulting interdependencies expose the fundamental contradictions of the coexistence of "fixed modernity" and "fluid modernity" (Baumann, 2000). The aim of the seminar is to enable participants to understand and analyze the phenomenon of migration and the increasing global interconnectedness in the context of social transformation processes. The concepts of mobility (Sheller and Urry 2006) and translocality (Brickell and Datta 2011) provide the analytical perspective from which various aspects of human mobility and immobility are considered. The seminar will discuss different forms of mobility (e.g. labor migration, illegal migration, return migration) and translocality in different contexts (e.g. urban and rural spaces) and with reference to gender, class, inequality, identity, among others.