Stealing Time

Monish Bhatia is lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of LondonVictoria Canning is senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Bristol

“Stealing Time is an important and readable collection of well written chapters, well put together. Its committed combination of critical research and exemplifying activism works.” (Scott Poynting, State Crime Journal, Vol. 12 (1), 2023)“This interdisciplinary volume brings together accounts of how states use time as a weapon in different ways in their efforts to fight irregular migration. … This timely volume elucidates a number of aspects linking time management, control of people through detention practices and administrative procedures within which people on the move become trapped with systemic harm.” (Yasha Maccanico, statewatch.org, November 18, 2021)

• Introduction: Contested Temporalities, Time and State Violence Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning.- Chapter 1: “My Beloved Will Come Today or Tomorrow”: Time and the “Left Behind” Liza Schuster, Reza Hussaini, Mona Hossaini, Razia Rezaie and Mohammad Riaz Khan Shinwari.- Chapter 2: Journeying and Encampment: Expanded Liminality and Protracted Refugee Temporalities Karam Yahya.- Chapter 3: Micropolitics of Time: Asylum Regimes, Temporalities and Everyday forms of Power Isabel Meier & Giorgia Donà.- Chapter 4: The Weaponisation of Time: Indefinite Detention as Torture Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani.- Chapter 5: Contested Dreams, Stolen Futures: Struggles over Hope in the European Deportation Regime Annika Lindberg and Stanley Edward.- Chapter 6: Compounding Trauma through Temporal Harm Victoria Canning.- Chapter 7: “Starting from Scratch?”: Adaptation After Deportation and Return Migration Among Young Mexican Migrants Alexis M. Silver, Melissa A. Manzanares and Liron Goldring.- Chapter 8: The Mexico City Runaround: Temporal Barriers to Rebuilding Life After Deportation Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz.- Chapter 9: Migration, Temporality and Violence in India: From Border Killings to National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act Monish Bhatia.- Chapter 10: The Violence Continuum: Border Crossings, Death and Time on the Island of Lesvos Evgenia Iliadou.- Epilogue Bridget Anderson.