Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time
This chapter sets up the book's central concepts and arguments, drawing on existing literature on the turn towards temporal analysis in migration studies over the last decade. It sketches out in detail how chronomobilities are structured through specific time-regimes and time-logics. The chapter seeks to work through the complexities of the relationship between migrant temporalities and migrant mobilities, and to build the framework that guides understandings of this relationship and the experiences it produces in migrants' lives. The concept of chronomobilities underpins the analysis in the remainder of the book. This portmanteau achieves two fairly prosaic aims. It simply and concisely suggests and reiterates the indivisible and mutually constitutive nature of temporality and mobility, and it names a framework made up of time-regimes and time-logics that provides the scaffolding for making our way through the complexity and multiplicity of migrant experiences of time.