ABSTRACT
Human mobility cannot be halted. In nations still haunted by histories of colonial invasion, land dispossession, and scarce opportunities, people have little chance of obtaining and sustaining purposeful lives. War and famine stoked by internal and external destabilizing influences, as well as the plundering of resources by multinational corporations, have led to millions undertaking journeys to seek out better opportunities elsewhere. The issues concerning human mobility outlined thus far are designed to set out the direction that the book will take and how spatial indeterminacy, vagrancy, and anarchy can help to characterize processes of societal action that are applicable to refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and the homeless occupations of urban sites in the city. The plan of the work is to follow lines and threads about how indeterminacy, transgression, vagrancy, and anarchy have been present, at various levels, in the evolution of the city and its environments.
