Introduction

Mobility, Migration, and Mobile Migration

“…151–60; Fine, 2019). Political theorists and social scientists alike draw attention to the racist undertones that often characterise these policies (Chung, 2020; De Genova, 2018; Fine, 2016; Jaggar, 2020; Kukathas, 2020; Owen, 2020). So, despite their apparent immobility, large parts of the population might be open to the prospect of moving, or might be aspiring to move.…”

“…The notion of mobile migration reveals another gap in the dominant approaches to migration ethics: a lack of systematic engagement with the concepts of both mobility and settlement. Many arguments in migration ethics focus on whether and under which conditions people have a right to migrate, and whether the state has the right to control migration (e.g., Carens, 2013; Cole, 2000; Fine, 2019; Kukathas, 2020; and Oberman, 2016). This is important but incomplete.…”

“…A third issue has to do with questions of unequal access to both mobility and settlement. While the fact that migrants from some parts of the world have limited access to mobility opportunities has been criticised in the literature (e.g., Fine, 2016, 2019; Kukathas, 2020; Sager 2018), considerably less attention has been paid to the same migrants’ limited access to settlement opportunities. In their attempt to contain migration, states not only impose restrictive migration policies, toughen border controls, and take measure to prevent the migrants from beginning or completing their journey to their final destination (e.g., Shachar, 2020), thereby affecting the access of migrants to mobility.…”

“… 8 On the difficulty of defining who is migrant, see Kukathas (2020) and Scheel and Tazzioli (2022). As these scholars highlight, defining who is a migrant might also have racial and colonial aspects that need to be scrutinised.…”