ABSTRACT
Global nomads try to detach themselves from some of the dominant discourses in their countries of origin and in the Western world. Global nomads are critical towards nationalistic discourses in general in the same way as they are critical to other ideals of dominant discourses. Sometimes global nomads' nationality or skin colour helps them, at other times they are an obstacle. Most of the global nomads are in a similar situation; they do not consider themselves as socially excluded. Their lifestyles rather seem expressions of neoliberalism in terms of the reduced role of the state, although their resentment of capitalist greed is contrary to this interpretation. Another interpretation for global nomads' self-exclusion is that Western societies' welfare for them is 'illfare' in the sense that it involves features they are not ready to accept such as materialism and high-pressured working cultures. This chapter focuses on the interplay between sovereign and biopower through individual movements, in the case of global nomads.
