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Author: Franca Zadra Abstract Time has been gaining migration scholars’ attention as a lens that complements the focus on spatiality that characterizes migration studies. The role of temporal dynamics in limiting the agency of migrant labour is an underdeveloped research issue. Particularly referring to migrants with legal status insecurity, not having acquired long-term residence permits […]

Author: Serena Scarabello, Eriselda Shkopi Abstract This paper offers a reflection on the ‘lost encounters’ between government policies’ temporalities and individual life trajectories’ of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy, focusing on how these time discrepancies may reveal the conditions to remain in, or fall into, exploitative working situations and/or social marginalisation/isolation. As Robertson (2019),

Author: Enrico Fravega Abstract “During the last two decades, within the cross-disciplinary fields of migration studies and refugees studies a growing corpus of research have focused on time and temporalities. This has happened parallelly to a growing attention to migrants and asylum-seekers life. Within this literature, at least two main issues can be highlighted: a)