The movements of people (and things) all over the world and at all
scales are, after all, full of meaning. They are also products and producers
of power. I want to make an analytical distinction here between movement
and mobility. For the purposes of my argument, let us say that movement
can be thought of as abstracted mobility (mobility abstracted from
contexts of power). Movement, therefore, describes the idea of an act of
displacement that allows people to move between locations (usually given as point A and point B in abstract and positivist discussions of migration).
Movement is the general fact of displacement before the type, strategies,
and social implications of that movement are considered.