Title: Considering time in migration and border control practices

Authors: Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko

Addresses: Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, Ireland

Abstract: Practices within the area of migration and border control are often analysed through a spatial lens. This is understandable: migration studies deal with movement of people across different places and spaces. International migration involves movement across a very specific type of space: states and their borders. This contribution argues that, despite its apparent emphasis on spatiality, migration, and more specifically migration control, has a distinct temporal element. This temporal element needs to be analysed and understood in a close relationship to the spatial aspect of migration and border control. This will lead to a more multifaceted view of migration and border control practices and assist in revealing their discriminatory or inadequate nature more clearly and easily. The paper also proposes a conceptual grid as an initial framework for such an integrated analysis of spatiotemporality of migration and border control.

Keywords: space; time; border control; migration control; David Harvey; US-Mexico border; multifaceted view; spatio-temporal analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2016.079325

International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2016 Vol.2 No.4, pp.329 - 344

Received: 21 Jan 2015
Accepted: 30 Jun 2015
Published online: 27 Sep 2016 *

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