L’expérience de la mobilité de l’Antiquité à nos jours, entre précarité et confiance

Human mobility has to do with space, but also with time and duration: it is a process, most often discontinuous, made of a series of events, during which individuals de-socialize, re-socialize, and transform themselves. It is this experience and its multidimensional and unpredictable reality that we propose to take into account here, in order to grasp the migratory experience in the very moment of displacement. The field of investigation is therefore that of the in-between situations, whether statutory, topographical, social or ideal: it is first of all the space-time of movement where anything can happen, where references are in a way suspended, where the horizon is indefinitely postponed; it is also the relational space, made up of mistrust or trust, which is created between migrants and those they meet. On the roads or at the threshold of an unknown place, in all cases, uncertainty, which for some is conducive to adventure, becomes a source of precariousness. This book constitutes the first part of a small anthropology of movement, which is intended to be transdisciplinary, transperiodic, absolutely comparative.