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

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Robertson, Shanthi
2021
Published by: Bristol University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Series Page, Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Table of contents

pp. v

List of Figures

pp. vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Series Preface

pp. ix-x

Introduction

pp. 1-14

1. Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time

pp. 15-48

2. Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context

pp. 49-76

3. Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers

pp. 77-112

4. Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging

pp. 113-142

5. Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy

pp. 143-178

Conclusion

pp. 179-188

References

pp. 189-208

Index

pp. 209-214

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