Book chapter 1541 views
The temporal complexity of international student mobilities
Francis Collins,
Sergei Shubin 
Timespace and international migration
Swansea University Author:
Sergei Shubin
Abstract
This chapter explores the links between migration, temporality and subjectivity, and provides a critical analysis of the standard treatment of time in the study of international student mobility, which is usually understood in terms of maximising utility in the future by moving across a measurable g...
| Published in: | Timespace and international migration |
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| ISBN: | 978 1 78643 322 0 978 1 78643 323 7 |
| Published: |
London
Edward Elgar
2017
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| Online Access: |
http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/timespace-and-international-migration |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34723 |
| Abstract: |
This chapter explores the links between migration, temporality and subjectivity, and provides a critical analysis of the standard treatment of time in the study of international student mobility, which is usually understood in terms of maximising utility in the future by moving across a measurable grid of time and space in the present. In contrast, this chapter seeks out the complex, unexpected and ineffable experiences of temporality among young people on the move. Building their argument from Heidegger’s Being and Time, Collins and Shubin seek to move beyond linear and compartmentalised accounts of time by claiming that human being is constituted by different temporalities simultaneously. Such an examination draws out the temporal complexity whereupon age/life stage, mobility and the development of skills and competences are all seen in a broader focus and in coexistence with futures, pasts and presents of migrants. In this framing the authors highlight a discussion that moves beyond the principles of utility maximisation in which students are perceived to be undertaking journeys with the goal of achieving strategic objectives. |
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| Keywords: |
international students, mobilities, non-linear time, subjectiv ity, becoming, affect |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |