Chapter 1: Introduction

Populations across the world are becoming increasingly mobile. This mobility is for many different reasons including a search for a better and/or safer life, economic or environmental purposes, education or identity formation, among others. While mobility may bring prosperity and better life chances, for some it means experiencing vulnerability. In this book the notion of vulnerability is discussed and applied in different contexts to provide understanding that it means many different things for different people. The notion of vulnerability is presented in both abstract and subjective forms. This book presents a conceptual framework of vulnerability to seven empirically led chapters contributed by different authors.