The mobility of people, objects, information, ideas, services, and capital has reached levels unprecedented in human history. Such forms of mobility are manifested in continued advances in communication and transportation capacities, in the growing use of digital and biometric technologies, in the movements of Indigenous, migrant, and women's groups, and in the expansion of global capitalism into remote parts of the world. Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice demonstrates how knowledge is mobilized and how people shape, and are shaped by, matters of mobility. Richly detailed and illuminating essays reveal the ways in which issues of mobility are at the centre of debates, ranging from practices of belonging to war and border security measures, from gender, race, and class matters to governance and international trade, and from citizenship and immigration policies to human rights. Contributors analyze how particular forms of mobility generate specific types of knowledge and give rise to claims for social justice. This collection reconsiders mobility as a key term in the social sciences and humanities by delineating new ways of understanding how mobility informs and shapes lives as well as social, cultural, and political relations within, across, and beyond states. Contributors include Rob Aitken (Alberta), Tanya Basok (Windsor), Janine Brodie (Alberta), William Coleman (Waterloo), Ronjon Paul Datta (Alberta), Karl Froschauer (Simon Fraser), Daniel Gorman (Waterloo), Amanda Grzyb (Western), Suzan Ilcan (Waterloo), Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex), Anita Lacey (Auckland), Theresa McCarthy (Buffalo), Daniel J. Paré (Ottawa), Nicola Piper (Sydney), Parvati Raghuram (Open), Kim Rygiel (Wilfrid Laurier), Leslie Regan Shade (Toronto), Sandra Smeltzer (Western ), Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton), Myra Tawfik (Windsor), and Lloyd Wong (Calgary).

Suzan Ilcan is professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is co-author of Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid.

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“Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice makes a significant contribution to the field, enriching and revitalizing debates and discussion on mobility. Anyone looking for a wide overview of the depth and breadth of the mobility turn will find this collection refreshing and instructive.” Benjamin Muller, Department of Political Science, King’s University College

"[Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice] provides the academic discourse with powerful narratives about the complexity of human mobility. The compelling argument of this interdisciplinary work sheds light on the areas of academic research about the contemporaneous forms of mobility and social life that need to be examined in-depth. Throughout the examination of a variety and original case studies, [the book] provides scholars in the fields of social relations, politics, and sociology, in particular, with new theoretical and methodological approaches to the implications of human mobility for social justice and moves the research forward by identifying important key issues in diverse areas of study and policy terrains." Information, Communication & Society