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Migration timespaces: a Heideggerian approach to understanding the mobile being of Eastern Europeans in Scotland
Author(s) -
Shubin Sergei
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12078
Subject(s) - openness to experience , certainty , futures contract , sociology , vision , structuring , epistemology , migration studies , gender studies , economic geography , geography , political science , social psychology , psychology , anthropology , philosophy , law , economics , financial economics
This article explores the spatio‐temporal experiences of Eastern Europeans during their migration to Scotland. It contributes to emerging research on times and spaces of migration by drawing on Martin Heidegger's analysis of ‘being on the move’ to challenge the prevailing objective conceptions of time and space as encountered in sequential and geometrically measurable forms. This article explores the complexity of timespaces in terms of their openness and co‐existence, and considers migrants' lives as open‐ended and incorporating a multiplicity of futures, presents and pasts. Using examples from a qualitative study in North‐East Scotland, it studies the role of uncertain transitions, moods and affects alongside certainty and rational plans in structuring migrants' being on the move. It concludes with conceptual observations about the consequences of adopting intersubjective and multiple visions of timespaces in migration research.