Abstract: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.
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