Shanthi Robertson

Temporality in Mobile Lives

Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Global Migration and Social Change
• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781529211511
• ISBN-10: 1529211514
• Artikelnr.: 59515615

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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