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Waiting for important news is uniquely anxiety provoking, and expectations for one's outcome fluctuate throughout the wait. Emotional volatility is typically associated with negative outcomes, but little is known about volatility in expectations. In Study 1, law graduates (N = 248) estimated their chances of passing the bar exam every 2 weeks during the wait for results. Greater volatility in expectations, operationalized as the frequency with which outcome expectations changed during the wait, was associated with greater worry and more negative emotionality throughout the wait. Study 2 partially replicated these findings in a sample of Trump and Biden supporters (N = 444) awaiting the result of the 2020 presidential election. Study 2 also demonstrated a causal link between constrained (vs. volatile) expectations and worry. Our findings have implications for how best to manage one's expectations while awaiting important news, with the goal of minimizing worry and other negative emotions.

Scholars have long demonstrated that the state monopolizes time and imposes waiting, with disproportional impacts for marginalized groups relative to other political subjects. Extending this literature with a life course framework, we analyze how receipt of legal relief in different periods of life shapes the impacts of policy provisions. We draw on the case of undocumented Latin American immigrants targeted by executive immigration actions (DACA and DAPA), designed to extend temporary access to employment, protection from deportation, and the ability to exit and legally re-enter the United States. Through a comparative analysis of interviews (N = 82) across three age cohorts—coming of age, young adult, and middle age—we find the impact of these state-extended benefits differentially concentrates in the domains of schooling, employment, and family. The paper contributes an analysis of state power through a life course framework, deepening understanding of undocumented immigrants' experiences of state-controlled time, waiting, and "illegality." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses access to basic health care facilities in Morocco, by emphasizing the issue of accommodation (Penchansky & Thomas, 1981). This article is based on data collected over three years spent in Rabat, Morocco, for fieldwork. The first year focused on hypertension. Research authorization was required for this research, which was obtained from the Ministry of Health. Research tools consisted of observations, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. I argue that waiting is not a passive experience or state. It is experienced with and through a mindful body (Scheper-Hughes & Lock, 1987), as an active and dynamic process that happens in a waiting room. The waiting room is conceptualized as a sphere of coexisting heterogeneity (Massey, 2005), allowing the concomitant presence of the body-self, social body, and the body politic, equivalent to body-inside and body-outside, respectively. By relating multiplicity and heterogeneity to time—biomedicine's time, different from patients' time, but also from the body's time or somatic time (Limor Meoded, 2018)—, I argue that the space of the waiting room brings these various temporalities together, commanding new configurations and processes (Massey, 2005). The dynamic process of waiting is embodied; it can burst out in the form of tension, when the concomitant presence of distinct trajectories, bodies, and temporalities inside the waiting room, sometimes generate violence (verbal and symbolic). Allowing this heterogeneity to coexist smoothly is the challenge of hospital architecture and its analysis from a phenomenological perspective will bring rich data to explore and extend the project of an anthropogeography of emotions and perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Serotonin is an essential neuromodulator that affects behavioral and cognitive functions. Previous studies have shown that activation of serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) promotes patience to wait for future rewards. However, it is still unclear whether serotonergic neurons also regulate persistence to act for future rewards. Here we used optogenetic activation and inhibition of DRN serotonergic neurons to examine their effects on sustained motor actions for future rewards. We trained mice to perform waiting and repeated lever-pressing tasks with variable reward delays and tested effects of optogenetic activation and inhibition of DRN serotonergic neurons on task performance. Interestingly, in the lever-pressing task, mice tolerated longer delays as they repeatedly pressed a lever than in the waiting task, suggesting that lever-pressing actions may not simply be costly, but may also be subjectively rewarding. Optogenetic activation of DRN serotonergic neurons prolonged waiting duration in the waiting task, consistent with previous studies. However, its effect on lever presses was nuanced, and was detected only by focusing on the period before premature reward check and by subtracting the trends within and across sessions using generalized linear model. While optogenetic inhibition decreased waiting, it did not affect lever pressing time or numbers. These results revealed that the necessity of motor actions may increase motivation for delayed rewards and that DRN serotonergic neurons more significantly promote waiting rather than persistent motor actions for future rewards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Emergency departments the world over have seen substantial increases in the number of individuals presenting for mental health reasons. However, we have a limited understanding of their experiences of care. The aim of this review was to systematically examine and synthesise literature relating to the experiences of individuals presenting to emergency department for mental health reasons. Methods: We followed Pluye and Hong's seven-step approach to conducting a systematic mixed studies review. Studies were included if they investigated adult mental health experiences in emergency department from the users' perspective. Studies describing proxy, carer/family or care provider experiences were excluded. Results: Sixteen studies were included. Thematic synthesis identified three themes and associated subthemes. Theme 1 – ED staff can make-or-break and ED experience – comprised: Feeling understood and heard; Engaging in judgement-free interactions; Receiving therapeutic support; Being actively and passively invalidated for presenting to the ED; and Once a psych patient, always a psych patient. Theme 2 – Being in the ED environment is counter-therapeutic – comprised: Waiting for an 'extremely' long time; and Lacking privacy. Theme 3 was Having nowhere else to go. Conclusions: The experiences described by individuals presenting to emergency department for mental health reasons were mostly poor. The results illustrate a need for increased mental health education and training for all emergency department staff. Employment of specialist and lived experience workers should also be prioritised to support more therapeutic relationships and emergency department environments. In addition, greater investment in mental health systems is required to manage the current crisis and ensure future sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In border areas, time and space are constantly suspended from the usual rules along a liminal pathway transforming status and identity. In order to understand how different regimes of mobility and reception influence the experience of time and the subjective actions of both asylum seekers arriving via the so-called Balkan route and Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war, the paper puts forward an analysis of the multiple scales of migration and reception policies as historically situated practices. How and to what extent has the increasing role of the humanitarian regime contributed to improving or worsening the lives of asylum seekers in borderland places where the memory of wars, civil conflicts, and experiences of refoulement is very much alive? Building on a multilocal ethnography of the temporalities of migrants' reception, the paper aims at disentangling the historical layers of hospitality in the northeastern Italian border areas of Trieste and Bolzano and the intersecting forms of (im)mobility at play. By addressing "reception" as an entanglement of spatial and temporal practices carried out by migrants, institutional, and humanitarian actors, we discuss not only how time reduces the existence of asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees to an empty and meaningless human condition by exerting control over the subjective experiences, but also how the migrants' experience of waiting translates into an active state of being with the creative potential to trigger new forms of sociality, solidarity, and senses of belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gambian's migration towards Europe, mainly constituted by young men, substantially increased since 2010. Arriving mainly through the Central Mediterranean Route because of the extremely scarce possibility to obtain a visa, most Gambians applied for asylum in Italy, the first arrival country according to the Dublin regulation. The administrative and juridical system largely rejected their asylum requests, leaving most undocumented, in legal limbo, and deportable. The paper focuses on the different trajectories of Gambians in Italy in their post-asylum phase, discussing how existential precariousness heavily shapes their lives and how this condition compromises future building along different but entangled temporalities. In particular, the contribution wants to reflect on the various intertwined timelines that people on the move forge and inhabit, showing how they are always multiple and articulated through spatial, social, cultural, economic, and personal dimensions. In so doing, I analyze temporal dispossession as a continuous process that Gambians on the move experience prior to, during, and after their trip to Europe and which they actively struggle to overcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the Canadian spousal reunification process and its specific bureaucratic temporality, in relation to citizenship and mechanisms of social control. Based on ethnographic research in a Facebook support group of Canadian women married to a non-Canadian man, I examine the role of online communities in reinforcing compliance to immigration slow temporalities at the expense of group members' urgent love temporalities. Spousal reunification applicants were recommended not to intervene as long as their file was still within official processing times. Those who acted too soon showed low compliance with government regulations and were called back to order by other applicants. The promotion of discourses that valorise both patience and proactivity deployed at the 'right time' – when delays are expired – constitute mechanisms of social control and contribute to shaping 'good', 'informed' and thus deserving citizens, in the context of marriage fraud suspicion. This article builds on the literature on waiting in immigration processes and articulates it with concepts of good citizenship. It reflects on how online immigration support groups become spaces in which applicants police and discipline each other along gendered lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The struggle for a dignified life is an extensive path that includes different dimensions of living, inhabiting and building, of disputing space and property. Frequently it begins with the search for access to housing, but it is fed by struggles for access to health, education, work. In response to these demands, in the last decade, in Ecuador, the production of social interest housing has increased while the sense of struggle of the population has been limited. Through an ethnographic approach to the beneficiaries of the "Casa para Todos" project in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and a detailed analysis of the form of government and housing policies, the question is answered, in what way has the Ecuadorian State generated oppression and subordination to through the production of social interest housing and its parallel public policies? The results show that the way of acting of the State and its strategy, consciously or unconsciously to create a subordination of the poor, is successful. The action of the State through agreements with the beneficiaries is aimed at generating powerless people, who remain in a constant state of uncertainty and arbitrariness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience of waiting for breast biopsy results can cause clinically significant levels of psychological distress. This study is a replication and extension of previous work examining the well-being of patients at a breast biopsy appointment. Expanding on a previous study, we aim to identify predictors of well-being following the appointment (i.e. waiting for results). In this longitudinal study, female patients (N = 197) were surveyed at their breast biopsy appointments and then completed daily surveys assessing distress and coping during the week-long wait for results. Surveys asked about patient characteristics, subjective health, cancer history, support availability, outcome expectations, and distress. Consistent with the previous study, health history and demographic factors were largely unassociated with distress, this time while waiting for biopsy results. Latina ethnicity emerged one of the few predictors of coping, pointing to opportunities for differential clinical interventions that take cultural factors into account. Finally, anxiety was highest at the beginning and end of the wait for biopsy results, suggesting that interventions may be most effective following a breast biopsy and the days prior to learning one's result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Torn between desire and hope, patience and impatience, those waiting for change in Morocco have, since independence, been articulating their rejection of the way the queues of dignity and social justice are getting intolerably static and crowded. This article reasons with cultural and socio-political gradations of waiting in the Muslim and Moroccan tradition to discuss how the dynamics of waiting and not waiting reflect the poor people's methods of tolerating or challenging the prevailing truth. We theoretically and empirically make sense of the way political stagnancy and social nothingness culminate into what we call a state of (asitism) or (as-it-is-ism), a proponent as it were of obdurate stagnancy, deferral of personal and collective expectations, and persistence of social plights and economic ills, that are continuously informed and challenged by waiting and non-waiting protocols. To get to grips with asitism as a conceptual tool and ontological phenomenon, this article takes into consideration how and why the subjects revolt, whether it be by seeking migration opportunities to Europe; by illegally crossing the borders; or by otherwise expressing their denunciation of the way politicians seek to dupe them into more waiting. However, even when they refuse to wait for the promises politicians make to be verified as truthful or fake by not taking part in the elections or by boycotting a particular party, we contend that they simply deploy the time they have for a different wait, hence re-organising themselves in a different queuing order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article consists of three parts, excluding the Introduction and the Conclusion. The first part “What is it ‘to wait’?” is a lexicographical study on the word ‘waiting’, in various Indo-European languages. This lexicographical adventure that passes through some dense foliage will not only clarify the different connotations in the phenomenon of waiting, but will also lead us to the second part of the paper – “Waiting and Time Consciousness”. Here, the art of waiting is examined through the looking glass of Time as understood by the philosophers Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. The questions of how we wait and why we wait are addressed in this section. The third part looks at the presence-absence of the waiting spirit in the post-truth era that we are living in. Titled, “We, the Hollow People”, this section highlights what happens to us when we forget to wait, forget to stand and gaze. The Concluding part “Waiting for God Who Awaits Us” speaks of Christians as “waiters”, waiting with and for God, the other, and also on oneself, not on lofty mountain peaks, but right down on the “bathroom floor”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lot of time and effort is put into reducing waiting times in organizational life. However, jobs can include phases of waiting. The aim of this conceptual paper is to analyze waiting on the job level and provide a theoretical rationale for individual management of waiting times of employees. Wait crafting is introduced based on (job) crafting and its advantages for individuals and organizations outlined. Steps towards integrating the possibility of job crafting and needs for future research are indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and objectivesTelemedicine bridges the gap between care needs and provider availability. The value of telemedicine can be eclipsed by long wait times, especially if patients are stuck in virtual waiting rooms. UCSD Tele-Untethered allows patients to join visits without waiting in virtual waiting rooms. Tele-Untethered uses a text-to-video link to improve clinic flow, decrease virtual waiting room reliance, improve throughput, and potentially improve satisfaction.MethodsThis institutional review board (IRB)-approved quality improvement pilot (IRB #210364QI) included patients seen in a single vascular neurology clinic, within the pilot period, if they had a smartphone/cell phone, and agreed to participate in a flexible approach to telehealth visits. Standard work was disseminated (patient instructions, scripting, and workflows). Patients provided a cell phone number to receive a text link when the provider was ready to see them. Metrics included demographics, volumes, visit rates, percentage seen early/late, time savings, and satisfaction surveys.ResultsOver 2.5 months, 22 patients were scheduled. Of those arriving, 76% were "Tele-Untethered" and 24% were "Standard Telemedicine." Text-for-video link was used for 94% of Tele-Untethered. Fifty-five percent were seen early. There was a 55-minute-per-session time savings.ConclusionThis UCSD Tele-Untethered pilot benefitted patients by allowing scheduling flexibility while not being tied to a "virtual waiting room." It benefited providers as it allowed them to see patients in order/not tied to exact times, improved throughput, and saved time. Even modest time savings for busy providers, coupled with Lean workflows, can provide critical value. High Tele-Untethered uptake and use of verbal check-in highlight that patients expect flexibility and ease of use. As our initial UCSD Tele-Untethered successes included patient flexibility and time savings for patients and providers, it can serve as a model as enterprises strive for optimal care and improved satisfaction. Expansion to other clinic settings is underway with a mantra of "UCSD Tele-Untethered: Your provider can see you now."

A lot of time and effort is put into reducing waiting times in organizational life. However, jobs can include phases of waiting. The aim of this conceptual paper is to analyze waiting on the job level and provide a theoretical rationale for individual management of waiting times of employees. Wait crafting is introduced based on (job) crafting and its advantages for individuals and organizations outlined. Steps towards integrating the possibility of job crafting and needs for future research are indicated.

In Assam, India, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) population enumeration process excluded about two million people from the final list. The NRC dropouts referred to in this study as 'paused citizens' are locked in a condition that is legally and socially ambiguous, hovering between citizens and stateless. This essay seeks to highlight the experiences of 'paused citizens' who have been thrown into this opaque and paralysing situation as they attempt to manage their precarious status, illustrate the tangled web of citizenship regimes, and the binary distinctions between inclusion and exclusion that are mediated by documents. A closer examination also reveals how the systems of power and control operate and how people trapped in time alternate between feelings of purposeful waiting and senseless stasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the temporalities that shape and alleviate serious health-related suffering among those with chronic and terminal conditions in Kerala, India. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2009 and 2019, we examine the entanglements between waiting for care within dominant institutions and the community organizing that palliates this waiting. Specifically, people navigate multiple medical institutions, experience loneliness and abandonment, loss of autonomy, and delays and denials of recognition as they wait for care. Community palliative care organizations offering free, routine, home-based care provide samadhanam (peace of mind) and swatantrayam (self-determination) in lifeworlds mired with chronic waiting. We document how community care sustains an alternative politics of shared time, untethered from marketized notions of efficiency and productivity toward profits. In so doing, we cast in high relief community healthcare imaginaries that alleviate serious health-related suffering and reconfigure Global North-centric perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Poor people in India routinely have to wait for short-term employment, basic services and subsidized goods. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, this paper describes how this waiting blends into an environment where men are underemployed and women try to make ends meet by engaging in contentious public activities. While negotiating destabilized gender roles, the latter downplay their wait for services and describe much of their paid and unpaid work as 'mere' waiting and just 'passing time'. In complex responses, they sometimes internalize the relations of power that keep them waiting, while subverting them on other occasions. Exploring what these women hide or minimize brings to light a host of activities that question our understanding of the boundaries of labour, idleness and the broader work of social reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractUniversity boycotts have been used by students to champion change and challenge oppressive systems around the world. This article focuses on the boycotts carried out by university students in Myanmar to support teachers participating in the civil disobedience movement sparked by the military coup of February 2021. Based on 15 months of remote research in 2021–2022, this article demonstrates that by putting their formal education on hold, university students have employed “waiting” as a form of resistance against the military regime. It also shows that university students’ commitment to resistance through boycotts threatens to compromise their academic progress and career prospects, prompting some to reconsider their tactics in the face of limited international support and prolonged military rule. In so doing, this article highlights how waiting can be a widely shared yet isolating experience, and adds to the understanding of how resistance evolves in response to the uncertainties and challenges imposed by the military state, examining individual decisions within the broader context of collective resistance by university students in Myanmar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the protagonist "F" of Samuel Beckett's Ghost Trio (1976) relies equally on musical and non-musical listening while awaiting a mysterious female visitor, only his immersion in Beethoven's music has been deemed critically significant. In what is the first sustained account of the intra- and extra-diegetic importance of non-musical listening in Ghost Trio , I stage a mutually illuminating encounter between the teleplay and Proust, Beckett's 1931 study of À la recherche du temps perdu. F's ambient listening, with its distinctive inferential mechanics, emerges as Beckett's intertextual return to the Proustian motif of "indirect" perception that had engaged him as a young critic. My reading of Ghost Trio conversely re-appraises Beckett's critical engagement with the Recherche 's soundscape. I foreground his many allusions to non-musical listening across Proust and his marginal annotations in the novel—still a largely untapped resource in this regard—while establishing their relevance to a phase of Beckett's oeuvre where Proust's influence is believed to have dissipated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article asks what we might make of Samuel Beckett's persistent aesthetic and ethical commitment to waiting during a moment shot through with calls to action in the face of extinction events and climate catastrophe. Concentrating on Beckett's 'grey time' and interest in Freud's death drive, I argue that Beckett's work uses the temporal suspension of the 'meanwhile' to attend to how bodies and selves endure through time when there has been a withdrawal of care for the version of the human that has imagined itself able to produce and mark the end of multiple human and more-than-human others. Beckett's scenes of endless ending, as forms of what Leo Bersani might call 'willed lessness', carefully return us to the ongoing relationship within and between human and more-than-human worlds, sustained according to different configurations of intensity. In the place of action, what persists in the 'meanwhile' is a drive that 'de-dramatizes' the human as a 'subject of knowledge', so that things might die in their own time and after their own fashion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ObjectiveThis study is a replication and extension of previous work examining the well-being of patients at a breast biopsy appointment. Expanding on a previous study, we aim to identify predictors of well-being following the appointment (i.e. waiting for results).DesignIn this longitudinal study, female patients (N = 197) were surveyed at their breast biopsy appointments and then completed daily surveys assessing distress and coping during the week-long wait for results.Main outcome measuresSurveys asked about patient characteristics, subjective health, cancer history, support availability, outcome expectations, and distress.Results/conclusionsConsistent with the previous study, health history and demographic factors were largely unassociated with distress, this time while waiting for biopsy results. Latina ethnicity emerged one of the few predictors of coping, pointing to opportunities for differential clinical interventions that take cultural factors into account. Finally, anxiety was highest at the beginning and end of the wait for biopsy results, suggesting that interventions may be most effective following a breast biopsy and the days prior to learning one's result.

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of the latest volume of Refugee Tales, which chronologically coincided with the seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention by the UK and other countries. This collection is the fourth volume of the Refugee Tales Project, which began in 2015 with a yearly meeting to walk and share stories by victims of detention, with the main goal of abolishing indefinite detention in the UK. The Refugee Tales Project, which exposes the humanitarian crisis involved in displacement, refugeehood, and detention, is primarily a spatial project that is concerned with borders and boundary crossings. The centrality of space can be seen reflected in the stories collected in Refugee Tales IV, which also reveal a sustained interest in the dimension of time. In this context, the present study addresses borders and border-crossing in the literary voicing of migrants' experience as these migrants interact with spatial and temporal planes, with the aim of exploring such an interaction in a selection of narratives from Refugee Tales IV. This analysis examines the selected tales from the perspectives of the treatment of space, time, and the disoriented perception of both, considering how the articulation of these parameters contributes to the exposure of the injustices in detention and refugeehood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Balkan route, or rather, the Balkan routes, which in recent years have been crossed by many different people, represent a paradigmatic territory on which practices of control, subjugation and precarisation are experimented to the detriment of those in transit. Their lives are punctuated by dynamics and structures that create a constant tension between mobility and immobility, between acceleration and waiting, with obvious and different consequences on trajectories, migration projects and agency. Greece and the Balkan countries represent two emblematic cases of what certain policies of control and closure can produce, both at a structural and individual level. Starting from a fieldwork carried out in Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina from August to November 2021, this paper will try to analyze how forced waiting and immobility, imposed by the border regime and by asylum and reception systems, can in fact produce illegality (De Genova, 2004), uncertainty (Griffiths, 2013) and precariousness (Khosravi, 2017). Thanks to the collection of testimonies and stories related to the condition of people stranded in these countries, I will show how the hypermobility produced by these dynamics can also represent a tactic, an attempt to regain control over one's migratory trajectories and to put an end to temporal and geographical stuckedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the extent to which Heidegger's thinking touches on the question of human hope and pursues the thesis: Even though the concept of hope is used only marginally in Heidegger's work, the question of it already accompanies his early thinking and deepens in the later thinking of Being. Although Heidegger takes a critical view of the metaphysical concept of hope because of its intentional character and its immanent understanding of time, he at the same time asks for an "original" hope, i.e., for the original experience of hope and for the origin of "calculating" hope. If the temporality of care is already implicitly a temporality of hopeful existence, then waiting, as conceived by the "Feldweggespräche", is a being awake, i.e., a being open and present in serenity. Pure waiting points into a letting that lets us hope. Waiting, i.e., letting go of all hope, we open ourselves to an affirmation that promises itself to us as gift and moment in the temporal experience of being-given. Heidegger's question could therefore be formulated as: What makes us hope? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the centrality of waiting in experiences of unhoming, which act as a mechanism of domination over a group newly subject to a specific manifestation of marginality; this mechanism has particular significance for understanding the differentiated dynamics of urban displacement. In this article we utilize interviews with 31 residents of residential flats in England living in buildings affected by fire safety defects, identified following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London in which 72 individuals died. We argue that research on urban dispossession needs to be attentive to distinctive processes and consequences of—and resistance to—unhoming. The experiences of newly affected populations unmask the underpinning precarity and unequal power relations of housing‐based urban citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several recent studies have examined experiences of waiting and spatial and temporal immobility among refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. This paper investigates recent migrants' experiences of waiting and (spatial and temporal) immobility in the context of COVID-19 lockdowns, and against the background of pandemic isolation and boredom. It asks how public health measures affected 'recently' arrived migrants' and how these migrants experienced waiting and immobility differently before and during the pandemic. We argue that differences in recent migrants' status and housing situations shape how they experience immobility during and beyond the pandemic. This paper contributes to research on immobility in migration by highlighting the importance of diverse emotional geographies of loneliness and frustration; it concludes that immobility is situated along an isolation-to-agitation continuum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines gender role reversal within Syrian refugee households through waiting modalities and rhythmic practices amongst Syrian female refugees living in informal tented settlements (ITSs) along the Lebanese–Syrian borderscape. The dominant traditional male role that was observed during the pre-Syrian war appears to rescind due to a new socio-economic status that female refugees gained in their waiting to return home. The ethnographic study revealed that female refugees performed new labour tasks and assumed new roles both inside and outside the ITSs whether working with host community members or assisting multisectoral agencies. In being productive, they transformed their passive waiting into an active waiting through cultural habits and daily practices. Their shrouded skills became unlocked. Gender empowerment is therefore constantly negotiated and renegotiated due to temporary coping mechanisms and forms of resiliency. This paper uses a multi-fold framework and deconstructs empowerment from a cultural and contextual perspective. The investigation of self-determination, sense of agency, and independence is performed through a Lefebvrian ‘rhythmanalysis’ lens (2013) present in the women’s daily and seasonal activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Wait time in healthcare is an important barrier to HIV/STI testing. Using a delay discounting approach, the current study examined a systematic reduction in testing likelihood as a function of delay (wait time) until testing. Methods: In Study 1 (N = 421; data collected in 2019), participants were randomly assigned to either a chlamydia/gonorrhea group or HIV group. A delay discounting task asked them to report how likely they would get tested for the assigned STI if they had to wait for the test (the delay durations varied within persons). In Study 2 (N = 392; data collected in 2020), we added a smaller, sooner outcome (consultation without testing) and tested whether the effect of delay was mediated by perceived severity of the STIs. Results: In both studies, the subjective value of a delayed STI test was discounted. That is, people were less likely to undergo STI testing as the delay to STI testing increased. The chlamydia/gonorrhea group discounted delayed testing more than the HIV group (i.e., the effect of delay on testing decisions was stronger for the former). This effect was statistically mediated by perceived severity. Conclusions: We found evidence for delay discounting for HIV/STI testing and that testing decisions were more susceptible to delay when the test was for relatively mild STIs. Policy Implications: Even mild STIs can cause serious health damage if left untreated. The findings provide strong argument for policies aimed to reduce wait times in healthcare, especially for relatively mild STIs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the US government has implemented several bureaucratic changes aimed at stalling the influx of asylum seekers. From the “metering” system initiated under the Obama administration to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) implemented by the Trump administration, these measures have erected a bureaucratic wall against asylum seekers that has kept them captive in Mexican border cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Tijuana, Mexico, I examine how these policies have produced deadly conditions for asylum seekers by calibrating time and space in such a way that increases their exposure and vulnerability to highly precarious environments and predatory bureaucracies.

This article discusses how strandedness is produced for asylum seekers and migrants in northern Mexico. We argue that it is fundamental to place these populations’ subjective experiences at the core of the analysis to understand their active stance in making meaning of their circumstances. We suggest a typology for approaching the migration projects that emerge while stranded and discuss migrants and asylum seekers’ active involvement in Civil Society Organizations. We conclude that there is an urgency to recognize that strandedness is a condition requiring that States, CSOs, and scholars reassess how societies could create a space for and with migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Waiting is spatial, gendered, and hidden. Drawing on ethnographic field work with cleaners in railway facilities of Hyderabad, India, and building on infrastructure and mobilities studies, I theorize the space-time of waiting. I propose waiting as a multivalent lens through which to view power, space, and labor relations. Second, I argue that waiting is a method offering possibilities for understanding the Sisyphean task of cleaning and uneven, precarious, and diverse urban worlds. Waiting is integral to maintenance work, and pivotal to the production of "clean" infrastructures, yet it remains invisible. Third, I posit waiting as praxis: a mode of field work grappling with place-based realities. Waiting is learning the station. My article considers the social and economic (im)mobilities that underpin the waiting of cleaning workers. I further posit queues as microinfrastructures of waiting. Finally, I argue that waiting, when employed as a method, and as praxis, reveals the uneven urban worlds, relational spaces, and the everydayness of capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aims: The aims were to assess whether preoperative joint-specific function (JSF) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) were associated with level of clinical frailty in patients waiting for a primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) or knee arthroplasty (KA). Methods: Patients waiting for a THA (n = 100) or KA (n = 100) for more than six months were prospectively recruited from the study centre. Overall,162 patients responded to the questionnaire (81 THA; 81 KA). Patient demographics, Oxford score, EuroQol five-dimension (EQ-5D) score, EuroQol visual analogue score (EQ-VAS), Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score (CFS), and time spent on the waiting list were collected. Results: There was a significant correlation between CFS and the Oxford score (THA r = −0.838; p < 0.001, KA r = −0.867; p < 0.001), EQ-5D index (THA r = −0.663, p =< 0.001; KA r = −0.681; p =< 0.001), and EQ-VAS (THA r = −0.414; p < 0.001, KA r = −0.386; p < 0.001). Confounding variables (demographics and waiting time) where adjusted for using multiple regression analysis. For each 8.5 (THA, 95% CI 7.1 to 10.0; p < 0.001) and 9.9 (KA, 95% CI 8.4 to 11.4; p < 0.001) point change in the Oxford score, there was an associated change in level of the CFS. For each 0.16 (THA, 95% CI 0.10 to 0.22; p < 0.001) and 0.20 (KA, 95% CI 0.12 to 0.27; p < 0.001) utility change in EQ-5D, there was an associated change in level of the CFS. EQ-VAS (THA, B = −11.5; p < 0.001, KA B = −7.9; p = 0.005) was also associated with CFS. Conclusion: JSF and HRQoL in patients awaiting THA or KA for more than six months, were independently associated with level of clinical frailty. With further prospective studies, clinical frailty may prove to be a useful metric to assist in the prioritization of arthroplasty waiting lists. Cite this article: Bone Jt Open 2023;4(4):241–249.

Waiting, whether for services, for someone, or for something, is an inescapable part of life. This paper addresses a gap in the waiting time literature by examining previously sparsely studied relationships between individual- and travel-related characteristics and attitudes toward waiting using a revealed preference dataset of Northern California commuters (N = 2617). Correlational analyses, followed by a trivariate seemingly unrelated regression equations model, are developed for three waiting attitudinal constructs: general tolerance toward waiting, and attitudes toward equipped and expected waiting. Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, time use perceptions and preferences, personality traits, multitasking attitudes (polychronicity), commute preferences and expectations, and general attitudes (e.g. pro-technology) are all seen to have significant effects on waiting attitudes. As this survey was executed on commuters, it also facilitates a unique simultaneous exploration of travel and wait time attributes, time uses that are often similarly viewed in day-to-day life. From this perspective, we see that longer commute times and distances are correlated with negative attitudes toward waiting, while commuters with pro-transit, pro-density, and pro-active transportation attitudes tend to have positive attitudes toward waiting. Additionally, we see that those with preferences for multitasking in general or at their jobs can tolerate waiting better. Overall, this study constitutes a distinctive contribution to the waiting time literature, capitalizing on a rich dataset to make important connections between related time uses and a multitude of other variables—key among them polychronicity, with its potential ability to reduce the negative perception and experience of waiting. Findings from this study may also benefit transportation and other service providers by facilitating an understanding of how various consumer groups/demographics view waiting, thus enabling providers to better cater to diverse needs/populations.

This short article shares the innovative pedagogic practices I explored and developed to nurture temporal reflexivity in the classroom to engage students in the study of the sociology of time in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and a local strike. It takes the reader through the module as it was structured and delivered in two parts: from calendars to calibration and from memory to procrastination. This is interspersed with details of the learning exercises we undertook in the classroom and the module assignments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I analyse the politics and poetics of waiting, as it is represented in feminist fictions of the 1970s, through reference to relevant philosophies of time. Focusing on examples drawn from American literary culture, I trace how writers including Lisa Alther and Marilyn French have envisioned the role of waiting in women's oppression and liberation, and ask why feminist fictions so routinely explore the issue of gender inequality through the experiences of those who wait. Extrapolating Henri Bergson's claim in Creative Evolution (1907) that waiting sharpens the individual's consciousness of time, I investigate the emotional valences of waiting and its literary articulations, arguing that the agitated feelings associated with waiting – from excitement and anticipation to impatience and dread – work to establish an affective temporality of waiting that comes to characterise the feminist novel in the 1970s. More pressingly, perhaps, as depictions of waiting acquire currency as salient animations of women's asynchronous temporality, I explore the extent to which attempts to represent women's fears and desires in time might, for certain subjects, model new forms of ethical engagement and political action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author describes the process leading from somatisation to subjectivation, via the transitional phases of symbolizing action. Through the offer of "a soft voice/a handshake, a receptivity to the unspoken pain of somatic expression," the fog of waiting gradually lifts, and the therapist becomes the source of pain and agression, the irritable bowel, legitimizing anger and also providing a source of comfort: he becomes her therapist at her bedside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2016, the European Union has made further efforts to streamline and simplify the procedure for international refugee protection. Despite this, asylum claimants in Europe often wait up to four years (or even longer) for a final decision. This article focuses on LGBTQI+ experiences with waiting. This paper examines "waiting" as an inherent part of EU migration policy and practice that is sexualized and racialized. What does it mean to live a life in limbo where the anticipation of the future collapses into the insecurity of the present, and, how is this tied up with sexual orientation and/or gender identity? Based on empirical data collected over 14 months in Southern Germany and using the lenses of migration and queer temporalities, this article shows how LGBTQI+ asylum claimants navigate wait time and create spaces of resistance from where to challenge racialized and sexualized forms of state legal violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the US government has implemented several bureaucratic changes aimed at stalling the influx of asylum seekers. From the "metering" system initiated under the Obama administration to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) implemented by the Trump administration, these measures have erected a bureaucratic wall against asylum seekers that has kept them captive in Mexican border cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Tijuana, Mexico, I examine how these policies have produced deadly conditions for asylum seekers by calibrating time and space in such a way that increases their exposure and vulnerability to highly precarious environments and predatory bureaucracies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]