Mobility

Iris Goldner Lang

Chapter 60 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 352-356 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Mobility is a non-legal term applied to human movement of ephemeral and circular characteristics. It is linked to legal migration, often for labour purposes. Unlike migration, which is considered problematic, mobility is perceived as positive and needed. Consequently, mobility is more focused on market/labour and individual needs than on state control. Despite this, states are reluctant to give up their sovereignty in this area. The scope of individual mobility rights usually depends on the host state. There are no global normative solutions regulating one's right to leave and reenter one's state of origin, enter another state and reside there, or acquire citizenship of a state with all the pertaining mobility rights. The most successful legally binding multinational mobility approaches exist at the regional level as regional free movement arrangements, the most advanced being the European Union.

Keywords: (human) mobility; Migration; (free) movement; Labour mobility; Circular mobility; (state) sovereignty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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