ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses other book chapters in the light of theoretical contributions like the New Mobilities Paradigm (NMP). It considers how internal migration can be viewed in an ‘era of mobilities’, how it has traditionally been viewed by scholars, and how internal migration is linked to other forms of spatial mobility. It is argued that internal migration has a central role to play in present-day mobilities but that other forms of mobility need not increase as internal migration does and vice versa: sometimes they facilitate internal migration, other times they prevent it. Migration and non-migration may be seen as attempts to resist and counter the fluid logics of the era of mobilities. It is important to recognise that mobility is prevented for many and is also resisted for its consequences. In an unsettled and mobile world, it is suggested that the twenty-first century requires much more effort in producing both settlement and mobility practices, including those of internal migration, in order to increase human satisfaction.
