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Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity-Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of "mobility" for anthropological thought and theorization.

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Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of "mobility" for anthropological thought and theorization.

The book scrutinizes mobility through long-term ethnographies that encompass life histories of individual persons, cyclical household developments, and the evolution of communities and networks. It shows how the social and spatial complexity of mobility increases with time and how socio-political and economic changes affect values, ideas, and practices in local life-worlds.

The case studies examines mobility from below and as processes constitutive of society and identity - processes through which mobility is perceived and experienced as part of life. How do people see their own local life-world and its (un)connectedness to other societies? To what extent can a mobility approach advance our understanding of the complex relationship between migratory practices, experiences of belonging, and the kinds of movement and connectivity that make and re-make people as well as their societies?

Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging re-questions and re-thinks relationships between space, time, and livelihoods and explores how differently motivated geographical movements may be perceived and lived as part of wider social complexities.

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CONTENTS: Kjersti Larsen/Jan Ketil Simonsen/Ada I. Engebrigtsen: Introduction - �ivind Fuglerud: Migration from Eelam (Sri Lanka): Terrorists, Model Citizens, and the People Left Behind - Ada I. Engebrigtsen: Mobile Subjects: Power Relations and Tactics for Survival - Kjersti Larsen: "This Is Where We Belong": Migration and Intersecting Mobilities in Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar - Jennifer Hays/Velina Ninkova: Vertical and Horizontal Mobility among the Ju ´hoansi of Namibia - Arne Aleksej Perminow: Moving Moorings, Nurturing Flows: Scales of Tongan Mobilities - Jan Ketil Simonsen: Kinship and Mobility in Urban Zambia (and Beyond) - Nigel Rapport: Epilogue: A Mobility Perspective and the Writing of Existential Power.

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