This interdisciplinary panel re-centres time – rather than space – as the key to understanding migration, precarity, and agency. Drawing on anthropology, development studies, geography, media and communication studies, policy research, sociology, and urban studies, speakers will trace the layered temporalities that migrants inhabit: from the collective rhythms of diasporic memory and national histories to the intimate beats of life-course milestones and everyday work schedules. By unpacking notions of halting and futuring, scarcity and excess, temporariness and permanence, the discussion will reveal how hopes, obligations, and uncertainties are distributed across lifetimes and generations. Topics include immigration regimes, deportability, climate mobilities, and intergenerational change. Ultimately, the panel invites a richer, time-attuned perspective on migration – one that illuminates how structural constraints and imagined futures co-produce migrant decisions, identities, and senses of belonging.

Speakers:
Dr. Judith Keller (Heidelberg University)
Prof. Michael Keith (University of Oxford)
Dr. Laura Antona (LSE)
Prof. Loren Landau (University of Oxford)
Dr. Rahsaan Mahadeo (University of Minnesota)
Rob McNeil (University of Oxford)

Organisers:
Dr. Jin-ho Chung (University of Oxford)
Diksha Shriyan (University of Minnesota)
migration.web.ox.ac.uk/event/migration-through-time-individual-and-collective-memories
This is a hybrid session. Please use the link below to join online.
zoom.us/meeting/register/tpV7FIWNRXq1Gg4sptGgNQ#/registration