Search Results for temporal migration

... to the recent socialist past, affective engagements with temporality, and transnational encounters. The essay emphasizes the distinctiveness of the way migrant workers engage these three intertwined forces—in contrast with entrepreneurs and government officials. The approach to global capitalism more broadly...

... offshore temporal migration call center simultaneity global time ...

... identity emerges from temporal, rather than spatial, migration into the global simultaneity of times as well as global and national contestation over her representation. Philippine corporate lobbyists offer the call-center industry as the solution to national economic woes and to the mass outmigration...

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... living bodily in Philippine national time. The offshore identity emerges from temporal, rather than spatial, migration into the global simultaneity of times as well as global and national contestation over her representation. Philippine corporate lobbyists offer the call-center industry as the solution...

... This chapter examines how the lived experiences of Korean Chinese labor migrants from Yanbian, China, are structured by the peculiar rhythm and temporality imposed by the visa regulations of the South Korean government. The regulations limit stays in South Korea, requiring repetitive migration...

... This chapter analyzes waiting as a form of work and an essential condition that enables and perpetuates transnational migration. It situates remittances as a particular form of money with a future-oriented temporality, functioning not only as pure money but also as gifts. It shows that, while...

... Chapter 2, “Sojourner Colonialism,” offers a critical analysis of Chinese entrepreneurial migration to South Africa as an unsettler colonial project with distinct spatial and temporal logics. It begins with an overview of dominant Western depictions of the Chinese migrant in Africa...

... This chapter examines how the lived experiences of Korean Chinese labor migrants from Yanbian, China, are structured by the peculiar rhythm and temporality imposed by the visa regulations of the South Korean government. The regulations limit stays in South Korea, requiring repetitive migration...

... Chapter 2 explores issues of temporality through charitable giving with the story of Jerbai Wadia, the widow of a hugely wealthy family. She endowed several plots to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) as communal housing for Parsi beneficiaries. While greatly benefiting her coreligionists...

... temporality black migration triumphant histories antagonistic cooperation Theodor Adorno ...

... to the recent socialist past, affective engagements with temporality, and transnational encounters. The essay emphasizes the distinctiveness of the way migrant workers engage these three intertwined forces—in contrast with entrepreneurs and government officials. The approach to global capitalism more broadly...

... Colonialism,” offers a critical analysis of Chinese entrepreneurial migration to South Africa as an unsettler colonial project with distinct spatial and temporal logics. It begins with an overview of dominant Western depictions of the Chinese migrant in Africa as a neocolonial pioneer and a discussion...

..., but rather trans-imperially present in the imaginations of those slaves and masters whose own local experiences in foreign locations were mirrored against the experiences of other slaves and masters. Such a perspective reveals the larger-scale temporal and spatial perspectives of Spanish colonialism...

... and historically coherent self, the metaphor is often employed to justify the fragmentation of experience and temporal disorientation. A case study that I use is the reconstruction and gentrification of Beijing’s Qianmen district in 2008. Buildings, billboards, and digital screens have formed together a contiguous...