Drawing on interdisciplinary research, this volume examines the intersection between mobility and hospitality, highlighting the issues that emerge as we encounter strangers in a mobile world. Through diverse empirical accounts, it considers how hospitality serves as a way of promoting and policing encounters. The book also examines spaces of hospitality and mobility, such as cities, hotels, cafes, homes and homepages.

Jennie Germann Molz is Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Sarah Gibson is Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Communication, University of Surrey, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Mobilizing and Mooring Hospitality, Jennie Germann Molz, Sarah Gibson; Chapter 1a Seville to Hackney: A Photographic Journey, Elly Clarke; Chapter 2 Moments of Hospitality, David Bell; Chapter 3 Hospitality and Migrant Memory in Maxwell Street, Chicago, Tim Cresswell; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitans on the Couch: Mobile Hospitality and the Internet, Jennie Germann Molz; Chapter 5 Sensing and Performing Hospitalities and Socialities of Tourist Places: Eating and Drinking Out in Harrogate and Whitehaven, Cuthill Viv; Chapter 6 Hospitality, Kinesthesis and Health: Swedish Spas and the Market for Well-Being, Tom O'Dell; Chapter 7 Resident Hosts and Mobile Strangers: Temporary Exchanges within the Topography of the Commercial Home, Paul Lynch, Maria Laura Di Domenico, Majella Sweeney; Chapter 8 Hospitality in Flames: Queer Immigrants and Melancholic Be/longing, Adi Kuntsman; Chapter 9 'Abusing Our Hospitality': Inhospitableness and the Politics of Deterrence, Sarah Gibson; Chapter 10 Hospitality and the Limitations of the National, Karima Laachir; Chapter 11 Figures of Oriental Hospitality: Nomads and Sybarites, Judith Still;