Buying Time: The non-ticking clock of asylum systems

• In Event: Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Status, and Rights in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

Migration scholars working on time have exclusively focused on migrants' experience of waiting. I argue that time is not only a constraint but a resource that can be scarce or copious and that political actors strategically make use of.

Author

• Anna Closas, University of California-Berkeley