IF 2.3 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2478205

Anna Gawlewicz

{"title":"‘It changes your priorities’: stay-return motivations among UK’s Polish essential workers in the polycrisis of Brexit and Covid-19","authors":"Anna Gawlewicz","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2478205","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2478205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores stay-return motivations among Polish migrant essential workers in the UK and how the combination of Brexit and Covid-19 shapes them. It conceptualises Brexit and Covid-19 as <em>polycrisis</em>, ie multiple, mutually reinforcing crises and illustrates how the intertwinement of both produces a new context against which migrant aspirations and transnational mobilities are negotiated. In doing so, the article calls for sustained engagement with polycrisis in research on migrant workers’ decision-making. The focus on Polish migrant workers is far from arbitrary: Polish remains one of the most numerous non-British nationalities in the UK despite decreasing by approximately 25% post Brexit referendum. Poles are also heavily represented in the essential work sectors such as food production, healthcare and transport, in particular in the more precarious and lower-paid roles. Methodologically, the article is based on a mixed-methods study including an online survey (n = 1105) and 40 qualitative interviews with Polish migrant essential workers alongside 10 expert interviews with key stakeholders providing support to migrant workers in the UK. It draws upon the first major study exploring lived experiences of migrant essential workers in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 853-870"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel 不可思议的停泊和移动：朱尔斯的海底小屋的故事，世界上唯一的完全淹没的酒店

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2409639

Phillip Vannini , April Vannini

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Multiscalar homing digital media use by Ukrainian refugees 乌克兰难民使用多标量归家数字媒体

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2475918

Paul C. Adams , Jacek Kotus

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Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data 数据流动：重新思考数字数据的流动和流通

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2481309

Rob Kitchin , Juliette Davret , Carla Maria Kayanan , Samuel Mutter

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Organising integrated urban mobility: actions, roles and identities in an evolving landscape 组织综合城市交通：在不断发展的景观中的行动、角色和身份

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2484233

Russell Cannon , Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren , Mats Fred

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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

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

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

{"title":"Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept","authors":"Emérence Guitton , Laurent Eisenman , Caroline Guerin , Marc Potel , Alain Somat","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2449515","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2449515","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 969-985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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

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

Joel Maddock-James

{"title":"Supply-chain infrastructure as architecture: a case study of Amazon in Darlington, UK","authors":"Joel Maddock-James","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2477173","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2477173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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 <em>infrastructure as architecture,</em> which establishes the importance of mobile horizontality to the dominance of vertical enterprises like this logistics and e-commerce giant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 986-1001"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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

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

Terri-Anne Teo

{"title":"Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter","authors":"Terri-Anne Teo","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2449008","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2449008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 769-787"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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#*

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

Jonas Larsen

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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

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

Susanne Klien , Cornelia Reiher

{"title":"Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin","authors":"Susanne Klien , Cornelia Reiher","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2449519","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2449519","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 805-819"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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