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New forms of migration are emerging, straddling several countries. They are generating new economic, spatial and identity dynamics. As Catherine Wihtol de Wenden writes: "migrants’ living space and knowledge have expanded and diversified. As global and transnational players, they represent a source of enrichment for the societies where they settle". The expansion of migration spaces is also one of the effects of tourism-related "mobilities". Another form of mobility that could disrupt the old paradigms of international migrations, the emigrant also becomes a migrant, in other words a “player”, more interested in mobility than settling.

Several factors may be the cause of (new) migrations: socio-economic and of course political contexts in the departure countries and the arrival countries, demographic and economic divisions between countries and continents, gaps between levels of human development (life expectancy, education level, standard of living), globalisation (which, while increasing exchanges and encounters, is disrupting spaces and imaginaries), geopolitical and regional (re)configurations, new conflict zones, environmental devastation, changes in climate or legal structures (legislation on immigrant reception and residence, visa delivery…), not forgetting individual situations and aspirations, starting with those of women.