Taking the informal tourism sector in India as a case study, this article demonstrates ethnographically that dichotomous classifications often taken for granted when conceptualizing human mobilities are undermined in people’s everyday practices. One of them is the binary between mobile cosmopolitan tourists (“guests” from the Global North) and local “hosts” (i.e. service providers from the Global South), who are denied the right to be mobile. The aim of the article is to overcome these outdated anthropological conceptualizations of the sedentary Other, based on ethnological naturalism and currently reproduced in the tourism marketing, in the context of global mobility regimes. The article shows that a high level of mobility is not only an attribute of tourists, but it also characterizes the “locals,” who work in the informal tourism sector in India. It also reveals the multiple ways that various forms of people’s spatial mobility – such as tourism and migration – intersect.

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超越久坐不动的其他人和流动游客：超越印度非正规旅游部门的流动性类别

本文以印度的非正规旅游部门为案例研究，从人种学角度证明，在人们的日常实践中，人们在概念化人类流动时通常认为理所当然的二分法分类被破坏了。其中之一是移动的国际大都会游客（来自全球北部的“客人”）和当地“东道主”（即来自全球南部的服务提供商）之间的二元对立，他们被剥夺了移动的权利。本文的目的是克服这些基于人种学自然主义并目前在旅游营销中在全球流动制度背景下再现的久坐他者的过时人类学概念化。文章表明，高度的流动性不仅是游客的一个属性，也是“当地人、”在印度非正规旅游部门工作的人。它还揭示了人们空间流动的各种形式——如旅游和移民——的多种交叉方式。