This article explores the spatio-temporal experiences of Eastern Europeans during their migration to Scotland. It contributes to emerging research on times and spaces of migration by drawing on Martin Heidegger's analysis of 'being on the move' to challenge the prevailing objective conceptions of time and space as encountered in sequential and geometrically measurable forms. This article explores the complexity of timespaces in terms of their openness and co-existence, and considers migrants' lives as open-ended and incorporating a multiplicity of futures, presents and pasts. Using examples from a qualitative study in North-East Scotland, it studies the role of uncertain transitions, moods and affects alongside certainty and rational plans in structuring migrants' being on the move. It concludes with conceptual observations about the consequences of adopting intersubjective and multiple visions of timespaces in migration research.
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