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The rapid expansion of academic research on mobilities is evident in disciplines such as geography, sociology, per formance studies, media studies, history, and literary studies, but how inter- or multi-disciplinary are the research programs, questions, and dialogues being explored? Are scholars from these different disciplines engaging in meaningful two-way dialogues with each other, and are they developing shared research agendas? (Merriman et al. 2013, 147–148) This was the guiding question for a panel discussion on mobilities studies, held at Aberystwyth University in September of 2012. It shall be the guiding question for this introduction as well, as it explores the intersections between mobilities studies and critical security studies that make up the theme of this Special Issue. Matters of interdisciplinarity and overlapping research agendas, as well as of productive ways to explore these overlaps, have in fact always been pertinent for mobilities scholarship. Since the publi cation of its original ‘manifestos’ in an article entitled ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006) and the editorial of the then newly-founded journal Mobilities (Hannam, Sheller, and Urry 2006), scholars have repeatedly highlighted the fact that a field dedicated to research into a wide range of mobilities questions must almost by default be open to influences from beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries. While having its roots and main outlets in geography, Büscher, Sheller, and Tyfield (2016, 485) characterise mobilities studies as a ‘hub of analytical insight for a diverse and expanding range of different parties, whether academic, applied, or creative’, and call for close attention to the ‘intersections’ that tie the field to adjacent disciplines.