Contemporary human mobility, in all its
typologies, it is a complex and dynamic phenomenon.
Its study involves not only a multiplicity of disciplines,
multiscalar synchronic and diachronic approaches, subjects
heterogeneous, diverse socio-cultural contexts and phenomena
but also different epistemological perspectives,
often conditioned by the interests at stake.
Undoubtedly, there is a hegemonic narrative about the
Today's human displacement is profoundly influenced
by "state thinking" (Sayad, 1998), by "nationalism
methodological" (Wimmer, Glick Schiller, 2002) and even by the
"colonial Eurocentrism", which, with the imposition of categories
tends to homogenize the migrant population and naturalize it.
their subordination to the "autochthones". Such a narrative does not
is neutral and influences not only migration policies, each
but also public opinion,
promoting the growth of a xenophobic and racist ethos, with
inevitable impacts on the mobile population.

DOI: doi.org/10.61301/978-65-85775-29-8.2025.28.264p