We are witnessing the revenge of nomadism

The era of unconditional superiority of sedentarism over nomadism and the domination of the settled over the mobile is on the whole grinding fast to a halt. We are witnessing the revenge of nomadism over the principle of territoriality and settlement. In the fluid stage of modernity, the settled majority is ruled by the nomadic and exterritorial elite.

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Polity Press, 2012) p. 13