Ours is an age of movement. Never before have so many people, willingly or otherwise, been on the move as at this juncture in time. We live in an era where the (everyday) lives of a growing number of people across the globe are, directly or otherwise, affected by migrations. Migrations and mobilities are constitutive of social life and in a broader sense the world we live in. Increasingly, migrants “give shape to how places are dwelt in and used” (Urry, 2000, p. 53). In a sense, “we are all becoming migrants now”, writes Nail (2015, p. 1). Becoming a migrant is not simply about moving from place A to place B, traversing places, on the way to a destination. The import of migration goes deeper than spatial displacement or change of abode. Frantz Fanon (1967, p. 229) captured the deeper significance of migrancy, of mobility, when he stated: “In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.” In the final analysis, our journeys make us. Is life not one long journey after all? Hence, mobilum, ergo sum (Tesfahuney & Dahlstedt 2008, p. 192) as an appreciation of our existential condition rather than a naïve celebration of nomadic ontologies and epistemologies.

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Conclusion: Mobilum, Ergo Sum

  • Mekonnen Tesfahuney

摘要

Ours is an age of movement. Never before have so many people, willingly or otherwise, been on the move as at this juncture in time. We live in an era where the (everyday) lives of a growing number of people across the globe are, directly or otherwise, affected by migrations. Migrations and mobilities are constitutive of social life and in a broader sense the world we live in. Increasingly, migrants “give shape to how places are dwelt in and used” (Urry, 2000, p. 53). In a sense, “we are all becoming migrants now”, writes Nail (2015, p. 1). Becoming a migrant is not simply about moving from place A to place B, traversing places, on the way to a destination. The import of migration goes deeper than spatial displacement or change of abode. Frantz Fanon (1967, p. 229) captured the deeper significance of migrancy, of mobility, when he stated: “In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.” In the final analysis, our journeys make us. Is life not one long journey after all? Hence, mobilum, ergo sum (Tesfahuney & Dahlstedt 2008, p. 192) as an appreciation of our existential condition rather than a naïve celebration of nomadic ontologies and epistemologies.