Inhabiting the meanwhile: rebuilding home and restoring predictability in a space of waiting
Inhabiting the meanwhile: rebuilding home and restoring predictability in a space of waiting
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2020.1798747
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发表时间：
2020-07-29
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Gil Everaert, Isabel
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作者：
Gil Everaert, Isabel
在世界各地，数以百万计的移民、寻求庇护者和难民在行动中遇到了无数障碍，并忍受了长时间的等待，导致经常出现不能移动的时刻。本文探讨了流动体验的一个悖论：寻求庇护者如何在等待的时刻调和长期的未来项目和眼前的未来。借助墨西哥和危地马拉边境的民族志田野调查，我研究了寻求庇护者如何在有限的时空背景下平衡他们未来的项目。我发现他们积极地居住在他们认为并希望是短暂的空间中。通过特定的策略，他们在同时居住，同时积极抵制放弃未来其他地方的项目。我分析了两套做法：在建造“家”的过程中实现的位置创造，以及恢复可预测性和对抗官僚程序带来的不确定性的临时策略。与此同时，居住突出了寻求庇护者在受限的时空背景下的中介机构，并允许在等待的空间中创造未来的可能性。
Around the world, millions of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees encounter countless barriers to their movement and endure prolonged periods of waiting, resulting in frequent moments of immobility. This paper explores a paradox of experiences of mobility: how asylum seekers reconcile long-term future projects with immediate futures during moments of waiting. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at the border between Mexico and Guatemala, I examine how asylum seekers balance their future projects within restrictive spatial-temporal contexts. I find that they actively inhabit spaces that they consider and wish to be transitory. Through particular tactics, theyinhabit the meanwhile, while actively resisting to forego their future projects elsewhere. I analyse two sets of practices: place-making materialised in the construction of 'home' and temporal tactics to restore predictability and counter the uncertainty imposed by bureaucratic procedures. Inhabiting the meanwhile highlights asylum seekers' agency within restrictive spatial-temporal contexts and allows for future-making possibilities in a space of waiting.