Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia–Australia Migration and Everyday Time (Global Migration and Social Change)

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. 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 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 Conclusion 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 Conclusion 3 Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Migration, work and the temporal Transified workers Contingent careers On pause: the indenture of the present Dark tunnels: the intensities of the everyday Conclusion 4 Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Migration, temporality and place Local temporalities: aspirations of life-stage and lifestyle Domestic temporalities: dwelling under transification Conclusion 5 Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Intimate relationships, mobility and temporality Suspending and settling: reconfiguring intimate timelines and timings “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 Conclusion References Index Back Cover 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.