ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a brief introduction to studies of mobility in an examination of the role of moving bodies. Travel from East/South/underdeveloped to West/North/developed is motivated by different reasons, mostly dominated by urges of discovery and knowledge or to seek out political, religious, and economic prospects. More recent studies on travel and mobility have noticed the change of stereotypes from a moving body that seeks enlightenment to a vile moving being that only brings destruction into European safe spaces. This chapter, serving as a theoretical overview of fluidity of identities, culture, nation-state, and borders, primarily benefits from Deleuze’s and Guattari’s nomad versus state to examine how this interaction has changed in recent times. This chapter defines the term “postmodern refugee” as a suitable concept for the current refugee crisis. The chapter ends with a speculation of how the continuation of political unrest will naturally change how theoretical lenses would pay more attention to the creation of a refugee identity.
