ABSTRACT
The social sciences are starting to systematize explanations of the changes towards a global society. The impacts of globalization are understood in view of the restriction of borders, in stark contrast with mobilities of people, and other movements in the Western Mediterranean region. Therefore, the emphasis is on mobilities in selected borderlands, in specific cities, with the city emerging as a strategic site for the creation of new representations of borders. The notion of a global economy is increasingly used to distinguish the particular phase of world economy that began to emerge in the 1970s. This phase is featured by a rapid growth of transactions and institutions that pass over the older framework of inner-state relations. People first need to identify older phases in the recent history of world economy in order to focus on the elaboration of categories at this moment.
