Screen LibraryMigrating borders and moving times : temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe /
Migrating borders and moving times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of de...
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Manchester University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Manchester : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Rethinking borders
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| Summary: |
Migrating borders and moving times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, per |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 186 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781526115386 1526115387 |
| Index Number: | JV7590 |
| CLC: | D750.38 |
| Call Number: | D750.38/M636-11 |
| Contents: |
Introduction : crossing borders, changing times / EU cross-border Passagenwerk / Negotiating 'neighbourliness' in Sarajevo apartment blocks / Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlands / Travelling genealogies : tracing relatedness and diversity in the Albanian-Montenegrin borderland / Living on borrowed time : borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labou |