Waiting Territories in the Americas: General Introduction

Waiting Territories in the Americas: General Introduction

In Waiting Territories in the Americas.
Life in the Intervals of Migration and Urban Transit
Editors: Laurent Vidal and Alain Musset
2016, Cambridge Scholar Publishing
pp.1-9

https://www.academia.edu/28128098/Waiting_Territories_in_the_Americas._General_Introduction
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307460505_Waiting_Territories_in_the_Americas_General_Introduction

Mobility and displacement are major characteristics of contemporary societies. These population shifts are far from fluid, homogeneous or linear, but are, instead, interspersed with a range of longer or shorter periods of waiting. Whether these intervals are technically, administratively or politically motivated, they are often understood in spatial terms: waiting societies have a territorial dimension.