Mobilność turystyczna i migracyjna - powiązania
Links between Tourist and Migratory Mobility

Summary/Abstract: In commonsensical thinking and most of institutional practices tourist mobility and migratory mobility are juxtaposed. They are contrasted through the pairs of oppositions such as (1) free will v. obligation; (2) short v. long term stay; (3) recreational (hedonistic aims) v. serious practice (pragmatic aims); (4) affluence v. poverty of a mobile subject. In the article each pair of oppositions is critically assessed. The contrastive vision of the two types of mobility is questioned. In its stead the two alternative visions of relations between tourist mobility and migratory mobility are considered. One sees the two as the sides of a coin: tourist and migratory processes are demonstrated to influence one another in material and historical space. The second alternative vision suggests that the boundaries between tourism and migration are blurred, which manifests itself in individual experience as well as in institutional and material assemblages of both.

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