Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529211511)

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.

Author: Shanthi Robertson
ISBN-10: 1529211514
ISBN-13: 9781529211511
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.70d