ABSTRACT
Movement reviews migrant flows where oceans, seas, and continents have both expanded and constrained human mobility. The fluidity of the endless depth and breadth of blue is demarcated by unseen undercurrents of friction and resistance. The first section Interview explores the role NGO humanitarian agencies play in the sea rescue of migrants and the immigration policies practiced by some countries in rejecting their duty of under international maritime law. Section two Civil and Civic examines from a western perspective, civil and civic codes that forged city-human identities and social-institutional representations. From settlement to city, spatial formations of civic identity have been founded on the construction of institutions and urban environments as a way of representing and defining societies. In the histories of Western societies, political governance, nationalist ideologies, and urban design, the physical and human side of civil and civic have been co-opted to form the arrangements of city and public spaces. Section three Migratory Fields examines alternative concepts to the accepted account of human migration out of Africa and into the wider world not from anthropological accounts, but rather through a geometrical dissection of the globe. The American futurist, engineer, architect, theorist, and inventor of the geodesic dome Buckminster Fuller proposed an alternative model of human migration through a complex ‘unfolding’ of the globe.
