Contracting and outsourcing im/mobility

Many western governments outsource and contract migrant-sending and -transit countries into their border enforcement and frontiering projects. What changes does this spell for the world order? As foot soldiers, mobile workforce arguably play a huge role in making this system a possibility. In this latest installment of MoLab Conversation, Julia Morris (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) and Biao Xiang discuss the relation between humanitarian staff’s mobility and global systemic changes.