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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume 18, 2011 - Issue 3
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Themed Papers

Waiting: feminist perspectives on the spacings/timings of migrant (im)mobility

La espera: perspectivas feministas sobre los espaciamientos/las temporalidades de la (in)movilidad de los inmigrantes

Pages 353-360 | Published online: 19 May 2011
 

Abstract

Waiting is a banal and ubiquitous practice that is linked in myriad ways to mobility and (im)mobility in the contemporary era. Yet, to date, experiences of waiting have received scant conceptual and/or research attention among scholars. Introducing a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture, this article highlights how a focus on temporal and spatial encounters with waiting and (im)mobility among migrants extends established areas of interest among feminist geographers and related interdisciplinary scholars while also augmenting scholarship in mobility studies. Key themes are introduced. These include attention to the ways waiting is imbricated with regional and international geopolitics and analyses of waiting as an active practice that involves reflection, incorporation into, as well as resistance within, the everyday spaces that migrants encounter. With an emphasis on how contributions to this themed section speak from or to a range of feminist concerns, this introduction suggests that the intersection of feminist perspectives and mobility studies engages valuable new research questions and offers possibilities for crucial insights into migrant encounters with the spacings/timings of (im)mobility.

Esperar es una práctica banal y ubicua que está ligada en una miríada de formas a la movilidad y la (in)movilidad en la era contemporánea. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha, las experiencias de la espera han recibido escasa atención conceptual y/o de investigación entre los académicos. Presentando una sección temática de Gender, Place and Culture, este artículo resalta cómo un enfoque sobre los encuentros temporales y espaciales con la espera y la (in)movilidad entre inmigrantes extiende las áreas establecidas de interés entre geógrafas y geógrafos feministas e investigadoras e investigadores interdisciplinarios relacionados, a la vez que amplía los estudios sobre movilidad. Se presentan temas claves. Entre ellos se encuentran la atención a las formas en que la espera está imbricada con la geopolítica regional e internacional y los análisis de la espera como una práctica activa que incluye reflexión, incorporación a los espacios cotidianos que los y las inmigrantes encuentran, así como también su resistencia dentro de éstos. Con énfasis en cómo las contribuciones a esta sección temática hablan desde o hacia un conjunto de temas feministas, esta introducción sugiere que la intersección entre las perspectivas feministas y los estudios de movilidad involucra valiosas nuevas preguntas de investigación y ofrece posibilidades para cruciales perspectivas sobre los encuentros de inmigrantes con los espaciamientos/las temporalidades de la (in)movilidad.

Acknowledgements

This themed section comes to fruition thanks to the persistence, encouragement and great patience on the part of the contributing authors, editors and reviewers. With heartfelt thanks to all those involved along the way, especially to David Chapin, Cindi Katz and Linda Peake, for supporting my own ideas on waiting as well as guidance at the outset of this project, and to Alison Mountz, Sarah Mills and Deborah Dixon who helped usher the themed section to a finale.

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