9. Time, Generations and Gender in Migration and Settlement

King, Russell; Thomson, M. A.; Fielding, Tony; Warnes, Tony

doi:10.1515/9789048504176-009

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“…An exception is the literature on mobilities (King et al 2006;Urry 2001) and a handful of geographers of migration who explicitly consider time (Conlon 2011;Gill 2009b;Hägerstrand 1975). Time is also implicit in research on 'second generation' migrants and retirement migration (Andall 2002;Christou 2006;White 2006).…”

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Out of Time: The Temporal Uncertainties of Refused Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees

Griffiths¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Despite long-standing recognition that variations exist between people's experiences of time, and that time is central to the framing of social life and bureaucratic systems, migration scholars have tended to neglect the temporal dimension in their exploration of mobility. This continues to be the case today despite it being over a decade since Saulo Cwerner, in this journal, called for migration researchers to give greater attention to time. This article seeks to reinvigorate the debate, drawing on ethnographic research with refused asylum seekers and immigration detainees in the UK to question how an appreciation of time provides insights into understandings of mobility and deportability. It argues that deportable migrants suffer from the instability and precarity created by living with a dual uncertainty of time, one that simultaneously threatens imminent and absent change. The article distinguishes between four experiential temporalities (sticky, suspended, frenzied and ruptured), and considers how the re-appropriation of time might aid individual resilience.Immigration detainees and refused asylum seekers are subject to multiple temporal tensions. In part these relate to cultural diversity, which is associated with variations in conceptualisations of time (Adam 1994a;Fabian 1983;Gell 1992;Marcus 1984). To a large extent, however, they arise from specific characteristics of the asylum and detention systems, including certain administrative procedures, chronic uncertainty and the systemic primacy of waiting. Although the relationship between time and space has been examined by philosophers and geographers for several decades

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Out of Time: The Temporal Uncertainties of Refused Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees

Griffiths¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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330

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“…Migration is as much concerned with time as with space, and all migration processes have complex temporal dimensions (Bauböck 1998;Cwerner 2001;Griffiths, Rogers, and Anderson 2013;King et al 2006;Meeus 2012). These are related to both the nationstate's management of immigration, and to the social and cultural practices of migrants themselves (Cwerner 2001).…”

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“…Patterns of life and work in the host country can enable forms of segregation that are temporal as well as spatial (Parreñas 2010). Despite some attention to time in the migration literature, including the conceptual significance of flows, ruptures, cycles and synchronicity (Griffiths, Rogers, and Anderson 2013), and the methodological significance of temporal frames such as life course and longitudinal studies (King et al 2006), the intersections between the times of immigration policy as disciplinary practice and the temporalities of migrant agencies and subjectivities in specific contexts remain underexplored. In the Australia context, there are a number of existing policy critiques of temporary migration and its economic and labour market effects (Guthrie 2004;Hugo 2006;Mares 2011;Tan and Lester 2012).…”

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Time and Temporary Migration: The Case of Temporary Graduate Workers and Working Holiday Makers in Australia

Robertson¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article provides an analysis of 'being temporary' in the context of two forms of migration that are of increasing significance to Australia: temporary graduate workers (TGWs) and working holiday makers (WHMs). Recent policy changes to these visa categories allow for extended periods of work and residence in Australia, primarily among young people who are seeking an overseas work/life experience or a pathway to more permanent migration. The article brings the various temporal dimensions of these migration processes to the fore, asking how time functions as both a disciplinary practice of the state and as part of the life and labour experiences of migrants. In doing so, it problematises the idea of temporariness as both a normative constraint and a qualitative experience in a national context in which paradigms of permanent settlement and full citizenship continue to dominate discursive constructions of migration. It creates a framework for understanding the key temporal aspects of TGW and WHM migration processes: temporal eligibility and migrant subjectivities; temporal constraints and differential inclusion; and the contingent boundaries around temporariness, extended temporariness and permanence. This has salience for continued understandings of emerging forms of temporary migration in wider contexts.

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“…Furthermore, Borjas (1995) has shown that the experience of migrant cohorts can change over time, with later cohorts faring less well than earlier arrivals. The literature on the temporal dimensions of migration-integration processes (Hägerstrand 1982;King et al 2006;Liversage 2009) discusses the concept of time geography, and demonstrates how the concept offers a methodology that connects mobile individuals and societal contexts over long distances and time spans. Liversage (2009) uses Bourdieu's concept of 'trajectories' when studying skilled migrants' participation in the Danish labour market, as the concept refers to human movements from position to position within a stratified social field.…”

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Crossing borders – getting work: Skilled migrants' gendered labour market participation in Norway

Fossland¹

2013

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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9. Time, Generations and Gender in Migration and Settlement

Cited by 41 publications

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Out of Time: The Temporal Uncertainties of Refused Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees

Out of Time: The Temporal Uncertainties of Refused Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees

Time and Temporary Migration: The Case of Temporary Graduate Workers and Working Holiday Makers in Australia

Crossing borders – getting work: Skilled migrants' gendered labour market participation in Norway

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