“Nowadays we are all on the move” declares Zygmunt Bauman, emeritus Professor of Sociology and prolific author.

As is frequently acknowledged, we live in a consumer society. Our primary role in society is as consumers. Consumerism encourages gratification; and stimulates restlessness. To be a consumer means to be a person on the move.

But not everyone can be a consumer; not everyone can be on the move. Mobility in our world is an elitist attribute. There is polarisation between: * the first world: inhabited by global businessmen, global managers, global academics. For them, state borders have been levelled down; space is easily traversed; their lives involve frequent international travel.

* and a second world of the underprivileged: for whom walls are built of immigration controls, residence laws, of ‘clean streets’ and ‘zero tolerance’. For many of them, mobility is an impossible dream.

Zygmunt Bauman postulates two categories of travellers: * tourists: such as the international businesswoman with three apartments, speaking five languages; enjoying a similar culture and experiences in different countries, and a kind of postmodern freedom

* vagabonds: habitually involuntary travellers; frequently forced to move on by an inhospitable world or a uniformed policeman; travelling because they have no other bearable choice.

Very challengingly, the Lyon International Anglican Church deals with people from both camps: * with high-flying business leaders and academics * and with refugees; from Nepal, and Sudan, and above all Nigeria. This mix of people is both a challenge and a blessing.