Human Mobility in the Middle East
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Zahra Babar [1]
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[1] Georgetown University in Qatar
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- Localización: Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East / Zahra Babar (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 9780197531365, págs. 1-17
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Between the two poles of moving purely out of choice or moving because one has no other option but to leave, there are a variety of circumstances and nuanced motivations that lie somewhere in the middle. No matter what the personal or circumstantial drivers and reasons that propel it, migration on an annual basis occurs for millions of people. The term “migration” is itself used to describe varied and complex patterns of human mobility that occur internally within a state or region, as well as those taking place across borders, internationally, and trans-continentally. Migration can be applied to the categories of people moving as a result of their own agency, voluntarily, and as an individual or familial choice. It can also be used to describe the categories of those having to move by force or under duress, and this includes the mobility experiences of forced migrants, internally displaced persons, refugees, and asylum-seekers.
