ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies a variety of population movements with the aim of better understanding highly gendered push and pull factors. From the outset we make the distinction between migration and mobility and this defines the two discrete parts of the ensuing discussion. We also identify different but interconnecting temporal scales of mobility and their local effects: daily local circulation, daily distance commuting, weekly commuting, occasional distance commuting, seasonal or task-specific labour migration and temporary, semi-permanent and permanent long-distance migration. In the first part we consider the nature of routine circulation, focusing on the divisive and damaging effects of the ‘automobility trap’ in urban design. Then we consider the nature of residential mobility and relocation. In the second part we look at the nature of migration, especially transnational migration, relating individual case studies back to themes of scale, power and interdependence raised in Chapter 4. Through these trends we again demonstrate the multiple, dynamic intersection of gendered
Learning objectives
• to be familiar with different types of population movement: migration, commuting, relocation and routine mobility
• to look at the relationships between poverty, power and gendered identity in people’s experiences of mobility and confinement
• to show how assumptions of private ‘automobility’ impact on the shape of cities and experience of social exclusion
• to refine the above by looking at key intersections of cities, gender and mobility, comparing selected cases from the global north and the global south
identifications; the local ramifications of global processes. Our aim is to highlight the androcentric ways in which migration and mobility are typically understood and represented, suggesting ethnographic alternatives that better account for individual lived realities.
