Time and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment

Tsagarousianou, R. 2023. Time and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment. Mobilities. 18 (2), pp. 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2088297

TitleTime and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment
TypeJournal article
AuthorsTsagarousianou, R.
Abstract

The article engages with the relationship between the chronopolitics of mobility and migrants’ narratives of the past, their present suffering, and hope for the future. Data collected through observation and repeat interviews with migrants in the Moria and Kara Tepe camps in Lesvos, Greece, challenge the assumption that ‘time’ spent waiting in the camps by illegalised migrants represents a linear and singular metanarrative of the migrant in ‘temporal suspension’ from the ‘grid of modernity’. I sug- gest, that the concept of historical time allows for a critical analysis of illegalised migrants’ narratives of their past lives, their present suffering and future aspirations, through which they challenge the chronopolitics of control inherent in the current EU migration system. While such nar- ratives might at first sight be understood as accepting a migration sys- tem based on suspension and gradual re-introduction into western historical and political time, they present a challenge to the exceptional- ity of western modernity and their suspension from it. I also argue, that narratives of ‘pasts’, ‘the present’ and hope for the ‘future’, challenge academic discourses of migration that centre on the notion of ‘bare life’, where historical and political time is suspended in the liminal space of the camp.

KeywordsMigration
mobility
immobility
time
temporalities
chronopo- litics
historical time
JournalMobilities
Journal citation18 (2), pp. 267-281
ISSN1745-0101
1745-011X
Year2023
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Publisher's version
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2088297
Publication dates
Published online28 Jul 2022
Published in print2023

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