Temporality in mobile lives : contemporary Asia-Australia migration and everyday time / Shanthi Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Shanthi, author.

Series:

Global migration and social change.

Global migration and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians--Australia.

Asians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2021]

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.

Contents:

"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

References

Index

Back Cover

Migration, work and the temporal

Transified workers

Contingent careers

On pause: the indenture of the present

Dark tunnels: the intensities of the everyday

4 Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging

Migration, temporality and place

Local temporalities: aspirations of life-stage and lifestyle

Domestic temporalities: dwelling under transification

5 Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy

Intimate relationships, mobility and temporality

Suspending and settling: reconfiguring intimate timelines and timings

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

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

3 Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781529211542

1529211549

9781529211559

1529211557

9781529211511

1529211514

OCLC:

1230973564