Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces
Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem (editors)
Palgrave MacMillan, 2018
Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism. While temporal reckoning has long fascinated anthropologists, few studies have sought to confront how capitalism fetishizes time in the production of global inequalities—historically and in the contemporary world. As it explores how the agendas of capitalism condition migration in Europe, North America, and Oceania, this collection also examines temporality as a feature of migrants’ experiences to ultimately provide a theoretically robust and ethnographically informed investigation of migration and temporality within a framework defined by the political economy of capitalism.
Contents
Migration, Temporality and Capitalism: A Brief Introduction
Barber, Pauline Gardiner (et al.)
Chronotopes of Migration Scholarship: Challenges of Contemporaneity and Historical Conjuncture
Çağlar, Ayşe
The Timescape of Post-WWII Caribbean Migration to Britain: Historical Heterogeneity as Challenge and Opportunity
Olwig, Karen Fog
Time at Sea, Time on Land: Temporal Horizons of Rescue and Refuge in the Mediterranean and Europe
Ben-Yehoyada, Naor
Conjunctural Reversals, Capital Accumulation and Family Adjustments in Chinese Trans-Pacific Migration
Trémon, Anne-Christine
Migrating for a Better Future: ‘Lost Time’ and Its Social Consequences Among Young Somali Migrants
Simonsen, Anja
“Wait, and While You Wait, Work”: On the Reproduction of Precarious Labor in Liminal Spaces
Bryan, Catherine
Migration Across Intersecting Temporalities: Venezuelan Migrants and ‘Readiness’ in Montreal
Sætermo, Turid Fånes
The Entanglements of Neoliberal Temporalities and Class Politics in Philippine Migration to Canada
Barber, Pauline Gardiner
The Dialectics of Uneven Spatial-Temporal Development: Migrants and Reproduction in Late Capitalism
Lem, Winnie
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