Human migration began transitioning from an itinerant and nomadic lifestyle to agrarian settlement around 12,500–10,000 years ago (de Haas, Castles, and Miller, 2020). In contrast, the 21st century is witnessing “the routinization of geographically distant movement” (Shin and Lee, 2022, 1), driven primarily by political, economic, social, cultural, and climatic factors. As such, the present era may be characterized as the age of high mobility—when mobility technologies have become integral to social life, mobility itself is embedded within epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic practices, and human beings increasingly understand not only our existence but also their very nature as mobile (Lee 1). In short, it is a time when “every major domain of human activity has become increasingly defined by motion” (Nail, 2018, 1). Encompassing all types of human, nonhuman, or more-than-human movements across both local and global scales, mobility has emerged as a fundamental condition of human history and a defining characteristic of the contemporary world.

DOI:10.30404/FLS.202606_(43).0001