Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence

Foreword: Adrift in the Global Migration Regime
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Introduction: Contested Temporalities, Time and State Violence
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 ‘My Beloved Will Come Today or Tomorrow’: Time and the ‘Left Behind’
	Introduction
	The Left Behind
	Waiting and Watching
	Life on Hold
	Time and the ‘Left Behind’
	Then and Now
	Conclusion
	References
2 Journey and Encampment Observations: Liminality and the “Protracted Refugee Situation”
	Introduction
	To Cross or not to Cross: Reflections on Bordered Mobility
	Recollections from Za’atari Camp, Jordan
	The Right to Return? The Lived Complexity of Borders Closing
	Greece 2016: Illegality and Waiting
	Why Do We Rescue?
	Conclusion: Tomorrow, Tomorrow
	References
3 Micropolitics of Time: Asylum Regimes, Temporalities and Everyday Forms of Power
	Introduction
	Time, Temporalities and Asylum Timescapes
	Methodology
	The Pace of the Asylum Regime: Slow and Fast Tactics
	The Politics of Duration and Continuity
	Affective Rhythms
	Negotiating Temporal Regimes
	Conclusion
	References
4 The Weaponisation of Time: Indefinite Detention as Torture
	Introduction
	Time in Manus Prison: Reflections from Behrouz Boochani
	Notions of History and Time
		Behrouz
	A Colonial Timeline and Transnational Resistance: Reflections from Omid Tofighian
	Horrific Surrealism and Indefinite Detention
		Omid
	Conclusion: Time and Death
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	References
5 Contested Dreams, Stolen Futures: Struggles Over Hope in the European Deportation Regime
	Introduction
	Manipulating Dreams and Stealing Futures: Annika’s Notes on the Structures and Agents of Deportation Enforcement
		Enforcing Dis-Belonging in the Swedish Detention Regime
	Stealing Futures in Denmark’s Deportation Centres
	Hoping Against the Deportation Regime: Stanley’s Reflections on Living in Deportability
	Hope as an Instrument of the Oppressor and the Oppressed
	Conclusion: Struggles Over Hope in States’ Deportation Regimes
	References
6 Compounding Trauma Through Temporal Harm
	Introduction: Temporal Harm and Bureaucratic Thievery
	Evidencing Temporal Harm: A Note on Methods
	Unearthing the Mechanisms of Stolen Time
	The Infliction of Harm Through Temporal Insecurity
		Surviving Stolen Time
	When Harm Compounds Trauma
	Temporal Barriers to Support
	Conclusion: Avoidable Harm, Achievable Hope
	References
7 “Starting from Scratch?”: Adaptation After Deportation and Return Migration Among Young Mexican Migrants
	Introduction
	New Pathways of Return
	Data and Methods
	Uprooted, Paralyzed and Lost in Transition
	Struggling to Overcome Language Barriers and Access Education
	Traversing Bumpy Roads Toward Upward Mobility
	Conclusion
	References
8 The Mexico City Runaround: Temporal Barriers to Rebuilding Life After Deportation
	Introduction
	Twenty to Life
	States of Return
	Deportees United in Struggle
	The Mexico City Runaround
	Time Marches On
	References
9 State Violence in India: From Border Killings to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act
	Border Killing and the Violent Stopping of Time
		An Illogical Partition and the Erosion of Cultural Spatiality
		Structural Erosion of Fluidity and the Infliction of Cultural Harm
	Orientalism and Hindu Nationalism: Border Implosions, Temporalities and Harm
		The National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act: Time Theft and Disenfranchisement
		Exclusion, Incarceration and Detained Temporalities
	Conclusion
	References
10 “Violence Continuum”: Border Crossings, Deaths and Time in the Island of Lesvos
	Introduction
	Frozen Death
	The Thanatopolitical Border Regime
	Thanatoharms
	Violence After Death
	Conclusion: Violence Continuum and the Right to Life
	References
Epilogue
Bridget Anderson
References
Index