Regimes of Mobility in Times of Accelerated Crisis

This chapter elucidates the condition of capitalism’s current organic crisis and its complex effects on mobility. With theoretical groundings in the mobility paradigm, it examines the intricate connections between various aspects of this crisis—economic, political, biological, geopolitical—and their cumulative influence on human movement. The role of migrant autonomy, solidarity, and citizenship in actively shaping and even subverting regimes of mobility is highlighted. Rejecting methodological nationalism, this chapter delineates the European space as the volume’s area of focus. ‘Europe’ is not understood as the end-point of history, but as contested space, shaped not only by exclusion but by hybridity and innovation as well.