The Metabolism of Modern Migration
in Transfers
Author:
Victor Seow
Victor Seow
Harvard University seow@fas.harvard.edu
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This thought piece reflects on the workings of modern migration through the prism of metabolism. It contends that the metabolic idiom productively underscores how migration as a process is enabled and evoked by particular flows of materials and energy and how the movement of migrants engenders social and environmental transformations.