The linear imagination, stalled

Changing Temporal Horizons in Migrant Journeys

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4263236
AutoresMegha Amrith (0000-0003-4662-5797, ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ Research Group Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Hermann‐Föge‐Weg 11 37073 Göttingen Germany, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas127-145
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12280
OpenAlexW3005333589
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas23

In this article, I engage with a growing interest in questions of time in the study of migration to consider how changing temporal horizons in migrant journeys play an important role in shaping multilocal migration imaginaries. I draw on two ethnographic cases with migrant care workers from the Philippines, of different generations and at different points of their migration journeys, to examine how initially held linear imaginaries of migration become confounded and stuck over time. Snapshots of migrant lives at these different points of the journey - '(pre)-departures', 'stepping stones', 'settling' - reveal how migrants' temporal horizons shift as a consequence of changing state and political-economic conditions, as well as migrants' own dynamic subjective and affective engagements. New uncertainties, possibilities and dilemmas unfold and initial linear imaginaries give way instead to those that are open-ended and asynchronous. A temporal perspective reveals that mobilities are not marked by a beginning and an end but rather involve ongoing, multiple and provisional journeys across locales and over time and the life course

Art · Ethnography · Mobilities · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration