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Zeit spielt eine zentrale Rolle in der Regierung von Migration. Dies zeigen aktuell eine Vielzahl von Studien aus dem Feld der (humangeographischen) Migrations-und Grenzregimeforschung. Daran anschließend untersuche ich in diesem Beitrag aus einer gouvernementalitätsanalytischen Perspektive, welche Bedeutung zeitlichen Aspekten in der dezentralen Bearbeitung von Erwerbslosigkeit geflüchteter Personen zukommt. Am Beispiel des Kantons Zürich zeige ich auf, wie im Rahmen der lokalen Integrationsförderung Macht sowohl über als auch durch Zeit ausgeübt wird. Darüber hinaus beleuchte ich Spannungen und Konflikte in der Arbeitsmarktförderung, welche sich aus der raum-zeitlichen Organisation von Integrationsprozessen in der Schweiz ergeben. Time plays a central role in the government of migration. This is currently shown by a growing body of literature in the fields of human geography, migration and border studies. In this paper, I apply a governmentality perspective to explore the role of time and temporalities in the decentralized government of unemployment among refugees. Taking the Canton of Zurich as an example, I show how in the context of local integration practices power is exercised both over and through time. Furthermore, I shed light on the tensions and conflicts of employment promotion that arise from the spatio-temporal organization of integration processes in Switzerland.

Migrant counterspaces: Challenging labour market exclusion through collective actionRecent debates in migration studies and labour geographies emphasise the need to acknowledge migrants' agency and their ability to challenge regulatory migration regimes and precarious working relations. Contributing to this literature, this article examines the activities of a migrant-run organisation in Switzerland in its collective response to labour market barriers mobilised by the state, employers, and society at large. Building on ethnographic and participatory methods, our findings reveal that the organisation's strategies focus strongly on the individual level and thus risk losing sight of broader power relations. Yet, our analysis also shows that the strategies employed can be transformative on the personal scale, creating a meaningful counterspace to dominant experiences of social and economic exclusion. In conclusion, we contend that an analysis of migratory movements needs to take into account the social and relational dimensions of agency as well as the differentiated effects of collective action.