Migration Across Intersecting Temporalities: Venezuelan Migrants and ‘Readiness’ in Montreal

Waiting as a redemptive state: The ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ and the offer from the Hamburg government

“…The 'incitement to wait, to be patient' (Povinelli, 2011: 190) is central to how power is organized in such processes of bordering (see also Hage, 2009). Several scholars have highlighted migrants' experiences and negotiations of waiting (Bendixen and Eriksen, 2018;Griffiths, 2014;Rotter, 2016) and explored the production of suspended futures through border controls, regularization schemes and labour regulations (Andersson, 2014;Barber and Lem, 2018;Bryan, 2018;Saetermo, 2018). Yet, while migration scholars have explored how migrants relate to uncertain future promises and how these articulate with neoliberal economic and demographic imperatives (Barber and Lem, 2018), there has been less research on the topic that interests me here.…”

“…As scholars have argued, conceptualizations of migration within policy and scholarship are framed within the spatial imaginary of territorial nation-states (Brenner and Elden, 2009;Wimmer and Glick Schiller, 2002) and often entail assumptions about temporal linearity (Ramsay, 2017a;Robertson, 2014). The spatiotemporal framing of migration as a linear process that tends towards inclusion into a new nation-state, has been questioned by scholars on conceptual grounds (C¸a glar, 2018; Ramsay, 2017b), and through ethnographic engagements with transnationalism (Saetermo, 2018) and multiple timescales (Robertson, 2014). These critiques recall arguments by feminist scholars on how temporal linearity work to efface difference and install singular visions of the future (Bastian, 2011;Hutchings, 2018;Massey, 2005).…”