Temporal bordering in the space of the camp: Producing and contesting abandonment in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens

Papoutsi, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102423

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“…Scholarship engaging with migration and temporality in turn mostly focuses on waiting, uncertainty, the temporalities of control, and temporal borders or the perspectives of migrants' lives in relation to time (Andersson, 2014;Brun, 2015;Khosravi, 2019;Tazzioli, 2018a;Tsagarousianou, 2022;Turnbull, 2016). It has predominantly focused on official camp settings, where waiting plays a crucial role (Papoutsi, 2021;Schwarz, 2015;Tsagarousianou, 2022;Turnbull, 2016;Walters, 2017), and neglected the temporal dimension of informality.…”

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Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders

Benedikt

2024

Int. Migration & Integration

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Temporalities of control are a key element of the migration reception regime: deadlines, waiting times, and limited durations of stay link safe housing to temporal and normative prerequisites. As a result, those who are unable to cross these temporal borders are stuck outside of reception and beyond the temporal nomos of the asylum system, in heightened im-mobility, cut off from protection mechanisms, and in a vicious circle of illegalisation. Based on a literature review and on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Italy between 2018 and 2023, and from the analytical vantage point on migrant practices of appropriation, this article aims to explore informal camps as ambiguous spaces between coercion and subversion. While informality is used by state authorities to disrupt migrant multiplicities, mobilities, and temporalities, it can at the same time become a loophole for migrants to evade control, deportation, and detention and to pursue their migration projects. Through practices of appropriation, migrants regain not only time and space but also rights that have been denied to them. In doing so, they contest the temporalities of control, demonstrating that time can be “taken” through endured limbo, but that it is still relative and can thus be recoded. Despite presenting informality as an arena of collective renegotiation, the article concludes arguing against a romanticisation of informal encampments, showing that they are subject to politics of violence and abandonment.

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Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders

Benedikt

2024

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…1.Temporariness is a condition that goes beyond labour migration systems but is also central to border control in asylum and encampment policies, as seen in recent work foregrounding temporal bordering practices, the politics of waiting and the appropriation of migrants’ time (Andersson, 2014; Tazzioli, 2018; Papoutsi, 2021). …”

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The critical temporalities of serial migration and family social reproduction in Southeast Asia

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The prevailing neoliberal labour migration regime in Asia is underpinned by principles of enforced transience: the overwhelming majority of migrants – particularly those seeking low-skilled, low-waged work – are admitted into host nation-states on the basis of short-term, time-bound contracts, with little or no possibility of family reunification or permanent settlement at the destination. As families go transnational, ‘family times’ become inextricably intertwined with the ‘times of migration’ ( Cwerner, 2001 ). In this context, for many migrant-sending families in Southeast Asian source countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, parental migration as a strategy for migrating out of poverty or for socio-economic advancement requires the left-behind family to resiliently absorb the uncertainties of parental leaving and returning. Based on research on Indonesian and Filipino rural households (studied from 2008 through 2017) including paired life-story interviews with parental/non-parental adult carers and children, the article investigates the crucial links between the time construct of seriality in migration on the one hand, and the temporal structure of family based social reproduction on the other. It first focuses on how serial migration produces, and is produced by, spiraling needs and expanding aspirations, hence creating its own momentum for continuity. The paper then explores how competing temporal logics create difficult choices for migrants, leading to the recalibration of priorities within constrained resources. By drawing attention to the co-existence of and contradictions between multiple temporalities in the lives of migrants and their families, a critical temporalities framework yields new insights in understanding the social reproduction of families in a migratory context.

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Contested worldmaking from ‘above’ and ‘below’: Bordered spaces and bordered subjects in search of asylum

Clark

2023

Political Geography

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Temporal bordering in the space of the camp: Producing and contesting abandonment in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders

Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders

The critical temporalities of serial migration and family social reproduction in Southeast Asia

Contested worldmaking from ‘above’ and ‘below’: Bordered spaces and bordered subjects in search of asylum

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