'Like the city, the nation, life itself, migration has become
increasingly diverse. This stimulating, multi-disciplinary edited
collection looks at questions about the connections between time,
space and migration at a variety of scales and across a range of
sites. Rhythms, patterns and scales of permanent, cyclical and
temporary migration are explored in fascinating detail, providing
new insights into an increasingly important phenomenon in a
globalising world. This collection will reset the agenda for
migration studies.' - Linda McDowell, University of Oxford, UK
Seeking to re-energise debates on the relationship between human
mobility and timespace, this book furthers our understanding of how
people move by foregrounding both time and space in the analysis of
different empirical migration stories. Though migration is often
seen as inherently spatial, the way space is being imagined is
rarely analysed, whilst questions of time are widely neglected by
migration scholars. Here, in contrast, the idea of timespace is
used to assert the significance and connections of these two
dimensions. The focus is on how timespace intersects with dynamic
migrant constructions, negotiations and performances as an integral
aspect of the rhythms of mobilities. Highlighting migration
journeys and emotions as embedded and embodied in everyday lives,
the chapters also examine the intricate and complex ways timespace
enters into, and is juxtaposed with, such feelings and practices in
different spaces. Migrations and mobilities are not seen as
one-off, separate processes, suspended in timespace, but rather
need to be theorised and analysed in more innovative and malleable
ways which take into account the non-linear, non-teleological,
ambivalent, irrational, messy and fluid ways in which people move.
Individual chapters engage with these concepts by considering a
broad spectrum of migration stories, from youth mobility, to
refugee migration, to gentrification, to food and to the political
geography of the border. The overall aim of the book is to
interrupt and challenge the ways in which migration scholars use
time and space within their research. Contributors include: E.
Ascensao, J. Carling, A. Christou, F. Collins, M.B. Erdal, M.
Griffiths, A. Ma, E. Mavroudi, J. McGarrigle, P. Novak, B. Page, S.
Shubin, D. Smith, H. Zaban
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