Igu Globility Commission

Commission on Global Change and Human Mobility, a study group of the International Geographical Union. Analysis of the forms of human mobility that may be related to the processes of global change, to the new forms of investment, local development and to social and cultural behaviour. The aim of this proposal is to direct greater attention to a new reading of traditional population movements and to consider new forms of mobility with reference to the migration of workers occupied in new types of production, stemming from economic globalisation, as well as types of mobility deriving from the internationalisation of consumption and new patterns of leisure and tourism. In the latter case, changing patterns of (mass) tourism provide a clear indication of a tendency towards post-fordist consumption and, therefore, towards a more differentiated and fragmented mobility.