ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the main pursuits and contributions among studies on identities in mobility. It addresses contemporary and seminal works carried out in the broad disciplinary area of applied linguistics and several other related areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, and international education. The chapter focuses on three inter-related themes: complexity, doing/becoming identities, and intersectionality. It refers to those on the move as migrants or transnationals without orienting to the rubric of the nation-state often implied in the term of migrants. The complexity embedded in identities in mobility as discussed earlier is unprecedented in its scale, multiplicity, and inherent contradictions. Recently, some studies on identities in mobility have adopted an intersectionality approach and draw attention to the interaction of race, ethnicity, gender, class, or sexuality in the process of identification.
