Mobilities and Displacement

Sheller examines the complex relation between mobilities and displacement drawing on perspectives from critical mobilities research, as well as feminist and postcolonial theory. The chapter offers an overview of how mobilities theory addresses questions of displacement, focusing on three key areas: bordering and forced migration; eviction, incarceration, and homelessness; and the pursuit of mobility justice through commoning mobilities. The chapter shows how place, home, roots, and settlement share a political genealogy with displacement, uprooting, mobility, and migration. The chapter concludes with a discussion of an ethics of placement and more mindful forms of ‘placing.’