‘Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence’ book launch

Stealing Time draws together empirical contributions that focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys. The book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of legal and illegalised. It unearths the consequences of uncertainty and unknowing for people whose futures often lie in the hands of states, smugglers, traffickers and employers who pay little attention to the significance of individuals’ time and thus, by default, their very human existence.

The collection includes authors from six continents, all of whom have researched, lived through, or challenged the harms of borders and the state and bureaucratic violence that impacts on migrant time, autonomy and lives. Their work centres around time and temporality, spanning journeying and encampment, the ‘left behind’, immigration detention and the weaponization of time, deportee time and the stealing of human time through deaths at borders. This online launch brings together some of these contributors to discuss the key themes of the collection.

Chaired by MMB Director Bridget Anderson.

Introduction from the editors: Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning.

Contributions from authors: Karam Yahya; Annika Lindberg and Stanley Edwards; Giorgia Donà and Isabel Meier.

A Zoom link will be sent to attendees the evening before the event.

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