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

by Shanthi Robertson

Overview

Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529211528
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	07/12/2022
Series:	Global Migration and Social Change
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shanthi Robertson is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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From the Publisher

"By attending to the intersections between the temporalities of intimate relationships and the mobile lives of transnational migrants, Robertson provides us a truly original framework to understand the times of migration." Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore