Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.

Reviews

'A superb collection of contemporary excursions into little explored European worlds and from the vantage point of migrants themselves.'
Brad Blitz, Middlesex University, EuropeNow Issue 25

Introduction: Crossing borders, changing times
Madeleine Hurd, Hastings Donnan and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
1 EU cross-border Passagenwerk
Olivier Thomas Kramsch
2 Negotiating 'neighbourliness' in Sarajevo apartment blocks
Zaira Lofranco
3 Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlands
Kathryn Cassidy
4 Travelling genealogies: tracing relatedness and diversity in the Albanian-Montenegrin borderland
Jelena Tosic
5 Living on borrowed time: borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labour migrants in Israel
Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida
6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
7 Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in southern Albania
Natasa Gregoric Bon
8 Missing migrants: deaths at sea and unidentified bodies in Lesbos
Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins

Editors

Hastings Donnan is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast; Madeleine Hurd is Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University; Carolin Leutloff-Grandits is Lecturer at the University of Graz