BOOKS - Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyd...
US $5.64
558596
558596
Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time (Global Migration and Social Change)
Author: Shanthi Robertson
Year: February 19, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 20 MB
Language: English
Year: February 19, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 20 MB
Language: English
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.