Mobile Methods in the Context of the New Mobility Paradigm

This article will reflect on the proposed renewal of the methodological resources required by the investigation of themes related to "new mobilities". The literature dedicated to understanding the impacts of these mobilities has argued the need to rethink the methodological resources explored and the importance of formulating methodological alternatives to those that are repeatedly explored. Taking into account that the authors of this text are part of a research group dedicated to the investigation of international academic mobility and that the practice of research points to the limitations of methodological resources traditionally explored, they have decided to consolidate the contributions that the international literature has offered in this field and to socialize with stakeholders. The text will be divided into two parts: while the first explores the paradigm of new mobilities formulated by researchers at the Center for Mobilities Research (Lancaster University), the second discusses what field scholars have been calling "mobile methods". Taking into account that the possibilities of using mobile methods are as broad and diversified as the field opened by the "new mobilities paradigm", the text will be illustrated with examples drawn from research on international academic mobility, focusing on the discussion of techniques that make intensive use of information technology and mobile devices, without disregarding ethical issues.