Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence

This book explores the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys, highlighting the impact of uncertainty and unknowing on their futures. It draws perspectives from various disciplines and locations to advance knowledge on how temporal exclusion relates to social and personal processes of exclusion.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 233 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book brings together empirical contributions that focus on conceptualizing the lived realities of time and temporality in the lives and journeys of migrants. It explores the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of legal and illegalized migration. It sheds light on the consequences of uncertainty and unknowing for individuals whose futures often lie in the hands of states, smugglers, traffickers, and employers who pay little attention to the significance of individuals' time, thus, by default, their very human existence.

Overall, the collection draws perspectives from various disciplines and locations to advance knowledge on how temporal exclusion relates to social and personal processes of exclusion. It begins by conceptualizing what we understand by 'time' and examines how temporality and lived realities of time combine for people during and after processes of migration. As the book progresses, focus shifts to temporality and survival during encampment, border transgression, everyday borders and hostility, detention, deportation, and the temporal impacts of border deaths.

This book both conceptualizes and realizes the lived experiences of time with regard to those who are afforded minimal autonomy over their own time: people living in and between borders.

Weight: 354g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030698997
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021