Negotiating 'neighbourliness' in Sarajevo apartment blocks 42 Zaira Lofranco 3 Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlands 58 Kathryn Cassidy 4 Travelling genealogies: tracing relatedness and diversity in the Albanian-Montenegrin borderland 80 Jelena Tošić 5 Living on borrowed time: borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labour migrants in Israel 102 Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida 6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe 121 Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

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This book explores how crossing borders entails shifting time as well as geographical location. Spaces may be bordered by both territory and time: in spatial practices, memories and narratives, and in the hopes and fears that anchor an imagined community's history to a given (imagined) territory. Those who cross borders must, therefore, negotiate not only the borders themselves, but the practices, memories and narratives that differentiate and define the time-spaces they enclose. Bordercrossers -and those who find that old borders have moved -must come to terms with the novel intersections of the temporal and the spatial they encounter. In this volume, we focus on the perspectives of those whose borders have shifted, as well as on those who themselves cross borders -exploring their subjectivities in the context of spaces that are not just physically separated but also zoned in time (Giddens 1991: 148).Migrating borders and moving times examines how people interpret life after moving across a political border, as well as their reactions to their 're-placement' when a national border has itself been moved around. Our contributors seek to grasp how such changes are understood -emotionally, in terms of (new) futures and pasts; as part of trans-border community or network formation; and in terms of the time-space materiality of border-crossing bodies and things. The 'moving' in the title of our book thus indexes both mobility and affect, since when something 'moves' us, it stirs an emotional response. How do different groups -contract workers, labour migrants and smugglers -conceptualise the borders they have crossed or those recently imposed upon them? How are those who have crossed defined by 'host' populations; and with what new eyes do they view themselves in time and place, reworking their relationships to the times and spaces of both their 'own' and the 'other side'?In order to answer these questions, we focus on borders that are embedded in specific political contexts, which we refer to throughout as 'polity' borders. These enclose and define areas controlled by national or supranational state authorities. They often appear as lines on a map, claiming a physical presence. On the ground,

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In Germany, the large influx of refugees arriving in 2015 led to numerous changes in asylum legislation and to new administrative measures. Apart from humanitarian reasons, integration efforts such as language learning, labour market inclusion as well as cooperation with authorities gained weight and are increasingly factored into decisions on residency permits or extension of stay. On the basis of participant observation within a refugee accommodation, the article argues that the legal and administrative framework of humanitarian reception constitutes powerful inclusionary and exclusionary mechanisms that entail not only spatial and social but also temporal dimensions. They unfold within the speed at which the applications are processed, the different residency titles (and non-titles) refugees receive and with this the different access to integration measures which again influence the speed of the “integration” of refugees into the German society. These temporalities build differential internal boundaries which impact on the everyday life and the future perspectives of the refugees in Germany.