Temporality in Mobile Lives : Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time /

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This innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia sheds new light on the complex relationship between migration and time. With in-depth interviews and a new conceptual framework, Robertson reveals how migration influences the trajectories of migrants' lives, from career pat...

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Autor principal: Robertson, Shanthi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Edición:1st.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Time.
Asians > Australia.
Australia > Emigration and immigration.
Asia > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series
  • Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia- Australia Migration and Everyday Time
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time
  • Migration studies and the temporal turn
  • Time as discipline: temporalities of governance and bordering
  • Biographical time: life-course and life-stage temporalities
  • Shared time and care time: temporalities and transnational families
  • Future time: temporalities of aspiration and desire
  • Chronomobilities: framing the multiplicity of lived times
  • Global time-regimes: hegemonic flexibility
  • National time-regimes: the transification of migration
  • The logics of 'lived' time: sequence, tempo and synchronicity
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context
  • Twenty-first-century middling migrant mobilities in the Asian context
  • Middling mobility: rethinking the 'in-between' space
  • Between social locations and between migration 'types'
  • Between youth and adulthood
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers
  • Migration, work and the temporal
  • Transified workers
  • Contingent careers
  • On pause: the indenture of the present
  • Dark tunnels: the intensities of the everyday
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging
  • Migration, temporality and place
  • Local temporalities: aspirations of life-stage and lifestyle
  • Domestic temporalities: dwelling under transification
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy
  • Intimate relationships, mobility and temporality
  • Suspending and settling: reconfiguring intimate timelines and timings
  • "That's why I didn't go": staying and leaving
  • "Not now, maybe later": extended singlehood
  • "I took it as my duty": transnational symbolic care as time investment
  • Sponsored love: unmappable intimacy and transforming families
  • "They want to cling on to whatever you've got": aligning intimate futures and mobility futures
  • "They had all of their concerns": negotiating parents, partners and visas
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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