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Temporality in Mobile Lives : Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time
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Temporality in Mobile Lives : Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time / Shanthi Robertson.
ISBN
9781529211535
9781529211511
Edition
1st.
Publication
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (224 pages).
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Summary
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 pathways to intimate relationships.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Global Migration and Social Change
Contents
Front Cover
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Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia- Australia Migration and Everyday Time
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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
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Index
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