Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism

Pauline Gardiner Barber is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada. Winnie Lem is Professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada.

• 1. Temporalities and Migration: Introduction.- 2. Chronotopes of Migration Scholarship: The Challenges of Radical Contemporaneity.- 3. The Timescape of Post-WWII Caribbean Migration to Britain: Non contemporaneity as Challenge and Opportunity.- 4. Time at Sea: Temporal Horizons of Rescue and Its Avoidance in the Central Mediterranean.- 5. Flexible Kinship and Discrepant Temporalities in Chinese Transpacific Migration.- 6. ’Lost Time’ – The Experience of Waiting for a Future among Young Somali Migrants en route.- 7. Labour and Population: Migration Pathways to Rural Manitoba Past and Present.- 8. Badocari Temporalities: Perspectives on Time, Bottles, and Economies for Romanian Roma Bottle Collectors in Copenhagen.- 9. Migration and Temporal Dissonance in Canada Philippine Migration.- 10. Temporality, Migration, Reproduction: Cycles, Alignments, and Misalignments in Late Capitalism.