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In his forward to World Migration Report 2022, António Vitorino (the Director General, IOM) briefly portrays migration as “… age-old phenomena touching almost every society around the world. However, they have changed over time in important ways.” Therefore, “Examining these shifts in scale, direction, demography and frequency can help us understand how migration is evolving, and can inform effective policies, programmes and operational responses on the ground.” In the age of turbulent globalization, the contemporary phenomenon of migration (different forms of human mobilities beyond predetermined borders) has forced the redefinition of conventions on the notion of territoriality. This exigency has constituted a new set of tasks not only for political technocrats, who seek to accommodate this situation on behalf of nation-states, or humanitarian vanguards, who have been laboriously working on the tragic consequences of this crisis for the people of the world, but also for social scientists, who are responsible for collecting data/producing knowledge of the “shifts” which are accelerating the erosion of political borders all over the world.