Migrations, or the Spatialization of Approaches

Changes in in-depth looks at international migrations give increasing importance to issues concerning space, spatiality, and territoriality in the scientific field but also to relationships between migrants and material, social, political, or immaterial domains related to those migrations as well as to social practices developed across international spaces and structures of identity building at various levels of normative or regulatory spaces. The author, a geographer, highlights the increasing spatialization of approaches. Looking back on the notion of migratory fields, he questions the strong sense this notion retains in connection with spatiality, the level of tension, the suggestive potential it still has, and the ability of that type of structure to persist over time and in the long term within deep and dynamic movements within globalized mobility spaces.