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Mobility in its many forms has long been considered core to the notion of progress and the formation of civilisation. Conversely, sedentarism—the practice of living in one place—emerges from the need to link property, descent, and lineage to the control of resources. World history is replete with the caravan trails of tribes, pastoralists, traders, and soldiers. This historical context of mobility is reinforced by today’s global networks, which facilitate a new world defined by the flow of not only goods, services, and capital but also labour. This, of course, alludes to globalisation—a force that has affected our so

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