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After the 2010–12 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the subsequent demolition of multiple buildings within the central business district, a host of creative projects emerged intermittently as vacant spaces appeared in the betweenness of demolition and rebuild. This widespread do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism brought back life and energy to the city. These expressions demonstrated how citizens can be involved in the (re-)making of a city through projects that experiment with ideas about what it means to be urban and what is possible in urban space. These projects inhabit an alter-temporality that treats the future as open-ended and time as an active force in the becoming of things. Understanding the temporality of such urban engagement in Christchurch holds significance for understanding the value of open experimentation in cities in general and the importance of process to urban learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on the case study of a prophetic-charismatic Church in Angola (Tokoist Church), this article analyzes the emergence of conversion narratives, collected through interviews and ethnography, through a historically constructed paradigm, where spiritual encounters are combined with an institutional and sociopolitical dimension. This paradigm acts as a catalyst for a biographic illusion, whereby contact with the Spirit is considered as the main factor for one's transformation, yet it is anchored to one's social capital. It also shows how these conversion narratives reproduce three distinct temporalities, which reflect the temporalities implicitly embodied by the figure of the prophet: the event, associated with a spiritual dimension, i.e. the descent of the Holy Spirit, and the bureaucratic act of conversion; the process, which involves access to institutional positions and daily charisma, depending on one's social capital; and performativity, which is visible in the ethnographic interaction between the researcher and the converts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dans un contexte d’écologisation de l’action publique, la gouvernance des métropoles fait aujourd’hui l’objet de tensions entre des politiques et des savoirs contradictoires relatifs aux enjeux de développement urbain et de conservation de la biodiversité. À partir d’une démarche de prospective participative menée à Bordeaux Métropole, cet article traite du rôle de la transdisciplinarité dans l’exploration de trajectoires socioécologiques métropolitaines futures pour tenter de concilier ces deux enjeux. C’est de l’articulation de savoirs hétérogènes venant des sciences et des sociétés que peuvent émerger les instruments d’une gouvernance anticipative cohérente et d’un investissement écologique des futurs urbains. La réflexivité de cette démarche permet également d’interroger la confrontation des temporalités propres à la science, celles de l’action publique et celles de la nature.

La longue histoire de la sélection des animaux domestiques est marquée par l’association toujours plus étroite entre les technologies et le développement économique. Aujourd’hui, la connaissance récente de l’ADN devient une référence incontournable pour la sélection des troupeaux, en particulier des vaches laitières. À partir d’une large enquête qualitative menée sur la race Montbéliarde dans l’arc jurassien, nous interrogeons cette innovation ainsi que le concept de temps qui sans statut ontologique, nous permet de dilater la complexité de l’élevage aujourd’hui. D’un côté, ces changements illustrent fidèlement les nombreux travaux qui démontent les ressorts modernes de l’accélération, mais de l’autre, les pratiques et les mots qui les accompagnent pointent aussi le fait que la durée peut rester à la base des compétences des éleveurs et du sens qu’ils accordent à leur métier.

S’intéresser aux rapports que les individus entretiennent à l’égard du futur et à la façon dont ceux-ci façonnent des états émotionnels (individuels ou collectifs) est utile pour mieux comprendre ce qui motive les pratiques sociales. Cet article propose de s’intéresser aux théories de l’effondrement qui nourrissent l’imaginaire de certains protagonistes du phénomène du « retour à la terre ». Sur la base d’un travail de terrain de longue durée au sein d’une dizaine de collectifs néopaysans dans le Massif central, je mobiliserai le paradigme des temporalités multiples pour nuancer les effets des théories de l’effondrement sur le quotidien des individus. J’argumenterai que les projets visant le repli en monde rural et l’autonomie alimentaire s’inscrivent dans une temporalité présentiste paradoxale qui fait coexister des horizons temporels antinomiques, à la fois pessimistes et optimistes, vis-à-vis de l’avenir et de la lutte sociale. Le refus des acteurs d’adhérer aux grands récits linéaires et d’un mode de lutte organisé et cohérent à visée universelle me permettra ici d’alimenter les réflexions 1) sur l’action humaine dans son rapport à la crise environnementale et sociale et 2) sur des fondements épistémologiques plus généraux, relatifs à la manière d’appréhender les temporalités en sciences sociales.

Prenant appui sur l’édition – tardive – de Lieux de Georges Perec, cette recension propose une réflexion sur les méthodes géographiques et urbanistiques de transcription du réel. Épuisement, inventaire, reconduction, étude de l’infra-ordinaire et autres idées fixes perecquiennes s’y révèlent comme autant d’outils à remobiliser au sein des enquêtes de terrain, a fortiori sensibles.

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Based on four key issues to be taken into account in adult training, as identified by Jean-Pierre Boutinet (2007), this article begins by situating the construction of training sciences within a key paradigmatic shift. Using this reference framework, the article then provides a historical overview of the emergence of training sciences, first in laboratories (1980) and then in the Department of Education and Training Sciences at the University of Tours. The temporal challenge of integrating experiential and formal learning--by oneself, with others, and through objects--has gradually emerged in multiple stages and multiple forms. Finally, a green paradigm of existential self-socio-eco-training is emerging, with its different axiological, epistemo-methodological, strategic, and engineering dimensions to be developed at appropriate paces in order to truly exist while living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How did the initial COVID-19 lockdown affect family life in terms of household chores, childcare, finances, communication, sexuality and other spheres of a romantic relationship? How do these issues differ based on whether the couple is in a long-distance relationship, dating but not living together, or is married or cohabitating, with or without children? Drawing on a virtual ethnography of Italian social-media communities, sixteen follow-up online interviews with eight adult couples and a discussion of their 'Corona diaries', this contribution extends a practice-based approach to focus on couples' experiences, feelings and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown temporalities of Spring 2020 in Italy. Forced self-isolation eroded feelings of ontological safety, making especially non-cohabiting partners feel even more vulnerable to the stress of contagion risk and loneliness. This phenomenon in some cases even de-romanticized the relationship to avoid feeling the lack of the partner. On the contrary, cohabiting couples revealed a discomfort linked to 'domestic gravity' and daily crowding, or the difficulty of safeguarding small moments of solitude. Conflicts were particularly exacerbated when partners had to reconcile agile work, childcare and domestic work. Working mothers with young children are among those most affected by the increased workload and resulting frustration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Depuis février 2020, le réseau SHS-Pesticides contribue à structurer une communauté de chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) travaillant sur l’objet « pesticides ». Les journées d’études annuelles organisées par ce réseau permettent de rendre compte de la diversité des approches sur la question, de confronter les regards disciplinaires et de mieux faire connaître, aux différents publics intéressés, les travaux en SHS sur cet objet. Nous partons du principe que le croisement des regards disciplinaires sur les pesticides est un moyen de mieux répondre aux enjeux sanitaires, sociaux et environnementaux qu’ils soulèvent. Les deuxièmes journées d’études de mai 2021, dont on donne un aperçu dans cet article, ont été l’occasion de présenter un état des lieux des travaux en SHS réalisés dans le cadre académique français et d’approfondir trois dimensions de la question : les alternatives aux pesticides, les mobilisations sociales autour des questions de pesticides, ainsi que les enjeux de temporalité dans leur gouvernement. Le réseau se structure, il permet de mieux faire connaître les travaux en SHS sur le sujet au sein même de la communauté de recherche mais également auprès des acteurs et actrices des politiques publiques et/ou du milieu associatif.

The doctoral program represents a process of training and transformation of individuals. Based on a singular device, the RIIME project (Research on Engineers and Innovation Training in the Maghreb Faced with Environmental Challenges), our research questions the learning process of the doctoral students who are involved in it. RIIME has strong specificities due to its multidisciplinary and international dimension. Our research is based on semi-directive interviews conducted with doctoral students. Two dimensions of the professionalization process structure our results. The first is at the individual level of skills development and shows the contributions in terms of self-confidence, perspective-taking and recognition. The second is at the collective level and highlights the phenomenon of identification, integration and internationalization. This study reveals the benefits and limits of the insertion of young researchers in an international research project.

Apprenticeship has expanded steadily over the past few years in France, including university in highly selective programs. Starting with a comparative situation in which the same course entitled « Organization and Communication» has been given to students in initial training and in apprenticeship, we analyse why this course was received differently by students. The latter were enrolled in the first year of the Master Miage (Computer Methods Applied to Business Management) in a Parisian university. Firstly, we explore the framework in which this course is delivered. We show how the Miage apprenticeship training takes place in a particular context that greatly values the professionalization of students. Secondly, we present the socio-demographic specificities of this Miage apprenticeship population compared to the initial training one. A statistical analysis demonstrates that the apprentices are over-selected and represent a group endowed with a stronger academic background. Finally, taking into account these contextual elements and the specific features of this population, we highlight the fact that this group is facing temporal conflicts that lead teachers to modify their pedagogical practices and to adopt the role of tutors. This means to adapt the time required to present theoretical knowledge and it poses the significant issue of its assimilation.

Amitié du lieu, amitié avec un lieu, la «topophilie» rend compte de la relation intense qu’attachentles humains à un lieu. Une sorte de géographie affectivequi associe de façon solidaire les territorialités et les temporalités et dont la «topo-analyse»et la «chrono-analyse», constituentl’approched’étudedes lieuxen tant que mémoire et esprit et en tant qu’espace heureux et d’amitié.Or, la «topophilie» semble contrariée par la globalisation, ses valeurs économiques et son imaginaire consumériste. Dès lors, la «topophobie» s’installe pour donner naissance à des lieux anxiogènes, désagréables, inhabitables, à unecrainte du lieuet à une homogénéisation des paysages et une banalisation des lieux. Une architecture anxiogène, un bâtiment écrasant, le vertige à partir d’une certaine hauteur, un paysage trop vaste, un canyon abrupt entre deux parois rocheuses, sont des lieux qui effraient, inquiètent, paniquent. Les éviter relève de la «topophobie». Pour ainsi dire, que la «topophilie»et la «topophobie»participent contradictoirement à l’écologie existentielledont l’objectif est l’habitabilité de la Terre, qui ne peut se réaliser qu’en combinant les territorialités de notre existence à nos temporalités et inversement. Les topophiles misent sur la coopération, l’entraide et l’harmonie entre les humains et le monde vivant, alors que les topophobes optent pour la compétition, l’intérêt privé et la technique, en laquelle croient indéfectiblement

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La ville intelligente est le produit du déploiement d’une infrastructure numérique au sein de l’environnement urbain. C’est un spectacle créé par l’industrie 4.0 et qui est promu par des municipalités d’ici et d’ailleurs. Les gains potentiels pour les gestionnaires des villes sont présentés aux citadins dans un registre émotif. Dans cet article est décrite une série d’incidences sociales qui découlent de la numérisation de la vie citadine. Ce texte est une proposition analytique qui a été échafaudée à la suite d’observations ethnographiques au sein du Laboratoire d’innovation urbaine de Montréal. Il en ressort que la transplantation d’une infrastructure numérique au sein du tissu urbain est loin d’être une opération anodine puisqu’elle : 1) accélère le transfert de la gestion des affaires humaines à des artefacts, 2) institutionnalise le paradigme indiciaire de Ginzburg, 3) fabrique de nouvelles temporalités non-humaines, 4) réactualise la fiction moderne du contrôle des parties et du tout. De ce nouvel état de fait surgit l’opportunité d’institutionnaliser une riche collaboration entre la science-fiction et la gestion publique afin de mieux qualifier les processus de mise en forme de la cité contemporaine. En effet, la cité numérisée est le cocon du projet de gestion algorithmique du social. Au fil des pages, le lecteur constatera qu’il n’est pas seulement question du devenir de l’expérience citadine sinon de l’avenir de l’idée que l’on se fait de nous-mêmes : qu’est-ce qu’être humain dans la cité numérisée ? À l’arrivée, ce qui ressort de la réflexion, c’est l’urgence de mettre à l’épreuve les raisonnements et les idéologies qui nous incitent quotidiennement à numériser nos vies. L’objectif de cet article est d’aider à enclencher la téléportation de la cité numérisée au cœur de la place publique afin qu’elle soit débattue par une pluralité de points de vue pour garantir, in fine, la qualité du fonctionnement des régimes démocratiques.

The Great Confinement affected the labor market, particularly the dynamics of unemployment. Based on IEFP data on registered unemployment, this article analyzes the impact of the pandemic crisis in unemployment situations in Portugal. The categorical and territorial distribution of the unemployed is highlighted, as well as the temporal dimension of the problem. The quantitative/extensive analysis carried out, as well as the cluster analysis, indicates that the incidence of unemployment is not identical for all social groups or for the entire territory, affecting some more than others, with emphasis on some spatial concentrations, particularly in Algarve; and the variations are directly related to temporalities resulting from periods marked by confinement or deconfinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La conception des temps de travail peut être considérée comme une innovation sociale dans les solutions retenues et dans leur processus de création. Portant le point de vue de l’ergonomie, cette thèse propose une démarche de conception du travail en horaires atypiques. Conduite en milieu hospitalier, cette démarche est une opportunité d’engager la diversité des acteurs dans une réflexion collective sur les conditions et les règles du travail concerné.

La conception des temps de travail peut être considérée comme une innovation sociale dans les solutions retenues et dans leur processus de création. Portant le point de vue de l'ergonomie, cette thèse propose une démarche de conception du travail en horaires atypiques. Conduite en milieu hospitalier, cette démarche est une opportunité d'engager la diversité des acteurs dans une réflexion collective sur les conditions et les règles du travail concerné. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metaphors are usually perceived as mere figures of rhetoric (figures of speech). Nevertheless, some (school) professionals use them to state their personal relationships with their professional time. Their metaphorical temporalities are thus constitutive of their professional ethos. Our study shows how metaphors used in school heads 'speeches account for their appropriation of a culture, of professional values and a perception/identity quest in their working environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cette contribution porte sur un genre de texte fréquemment demandé dans les formations initiales ou continues à l’enseignement : le bilan d’apprentissage (également nommé « bilan de formation » ou « journal d’apprentissage ») visant, entre autres, à susciter chez l’enseignant·e en formation un processus autoévaluatif. Bien que ce genre de texte soit courant, ses différentes déclinaisons font rarement l’objet d’études. Ainsi une douzaine de textes produits par divers étudiant·es (avec ou sans expérience professionnelle, enseignant·e ou formateur·rice), dans plusieurs institutions de formation à l’enseignement et de Suisse romande sont analysés selon une approche discursive. L’analyse met en lumière différentes formes d’évolutions verbalisées par les formé·es, les postures énonciatives et les points de vue qu’ils ou elles adoptent ainsi que les types de segmentation temporelle relatées dans les textes. En montrant une variété de formes d’évolution et une diversité de manières de se mettre en scène et de se regarder, nos résultats révèlent les différentes compréhensions du terme “apprendre”, quel que soit le contexte de formation et une tendance des enseignant·es à être plus descriptifs qu’analytiques. Les analyses montrent également les effets des temporalités choisies sur les engagements des enseignant·es en formation. Au final, les analyses questionnent certaines pratiques de formation en les rattachant à une problématique de littéracie universitaire.

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Cet article veut analyser comment -- et si -- la pandémie de coronavirus a provoqué un changement dans les temporalités qui traversent notre quotidien. Placée sous le signe d'une urgence qui nous a menés en quelques jours jusqu'à "l'état d'urgence sanitaire", cette suspension des attitudes corporelles ordinaires (dangereuses) et leur remplacement par d'autres (tout à la fois défensives et protectrices) devraient s'opérer, comme il est normal en régime présentiste, instantanément ou presque. Depuis Hippocrate, il revient à la médecine de reconnaître que la maladie a, elle aussi, une temporalité propre. Sous le désordre apparent de la maladie, il y a en fait un ordre que repère l'oeil exercé du médecin : un ordre du temps. Le temps de la pandémie a conduit à l'instauration d'un temps nouveau, celui du confinement: temps sanitaire, puisque le confinement est le seul instrument à notre disposition, dit la médecine, pour retarder, freiner la progression du virus, pour que la courbe exponentielle cesse son implacable ascension. En ce point surgissent d'inévitables conflits de temporalités qui appellent des arbitrages. La question de la nomination de l'événement est centrale. Epidémie, pandémie, oui, mais nous restons dans la sphère de la médecine. La question est de savoir si la crise majeure que traverse le monde est une occasion, un kairos, qui, interrompant les temporalités usuelles du temps chronos, pourrait ouvrir sur un temps nouveau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Northern Ghana, the microfinance company DKM convinced large segments of the population to give them money based on spectacular rates, only to fail spectacularly and leave many people bankrupt in 2016. Such Ponzi schemes are anything but unusual, in Africa and elsewhere, and have been studied as manifestations of an ever-accelerating neoliberal capitalism. Yet, the affected people remember DKM and its manager fondly, and they have abandoned the wait to get their money back. Instead of exploring economic questions, this paper will explore practices of waiting in the context of the scheme to understand the connection between social relationships and imagined futures. In DKM, actors engaged in deeply social forms of waiting, and these were part of late-modern financial schemes, leading to various forms of synchronization. When the tension between the social and instrumental aspects of this waiting emerged after the scheme's collapse, actors – in Northern Ghana at least – ultimately decided to preserve their relationships. Looking back, actors speak about this period as a time of hope, a time in which waiting seemed to be over in a more existential sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these challenges by framing them as security concerns that demand urgent intervention. Young people are implicated in both crises and drawn into the securitisation discourse as agents (of risk and protection) and as (potential) victims. However, the concepts of security deployed by global institutions and translated into national policy do not reflect the ways in/security is experienced 'on the ground' as a subjective and embodied orientation to the future. This paper brings work on youth temporalities to bear on social and cultural geographies of in/security and securitisation. It reports on research that explored insecurities among young people in Lesotho and Malawi. It concludes that, by focusing on 'threats' in isolation, and seeking to protect 'society' as an abstract aggregate of people, global securitisation discourses fail either to engage with the complex contextualised ways in which marginalised people experience insecurity or to proffer the political responses that are needed if those felt insecurities are to be addressed. However, while securitisation is problematic, in/security is nonetheless an important element in young people's orientation to the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Loneliness is known to every human being. It has a particular echo in women's lives. It often takes the form of constraint rather than choice. It's a question here of putting in tension lived space and isolation, at different scales and to decipher the mechanisms of factory of solitudes. Several aspects are envisaged in order to identify a typology of the solitudes and the relation to the world that they underlie. This is the case with accompanied loneliness's, which result more particularly from the lifestyles and global dynamics of a metropolis, then from the processes of social control that act on chosen loneliness, and conversely uses loneliness it undergoes to reinforce itself. The proposition is to consider loneliness as a democratic issue, that it becomes a possible choice to withdraw from the world as much as to stop or slow down. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

À travers l'entrée privilégiée du « numb taste », un goût qui engourdit les muqueuses de la bouche (et qui est ici provoqué par un fruit : le durian), on aborde la question des rapports humains aux aliments de façon transversale, en liant modes de connaissance, de consommation et de production.Se gardant de toute inflation théorique, le propos s'attache à l'analyse ethnographique méticuleuse du goût et de l'économie générale dans lequel il s'inscrit, entre la Malaisie et Singapour, pour finalement conceptualiser différentes manières de composer et d'éprouver les aliments et les mondes.On liera notamment l'apparition du numb taste à une contrainte agronomique et ontologique que s'imposent les producteurs et les consommateurs de ces deux pays, en laissant tomber des fruits que la rationalité économique la plus évidente leur enjoint pourtant de récolter.

How does environmental public action govern the heterogeneous temporalities of the social and natural worlds? To contribute answering this question, this paper critically studies the policies deployed to govern water scarcity in South-western France for more than thirty years. This paper shows the ambiguity associated to the construction of an environmental reference state for rivers corresponding to management threshold based on a modeled representation of rivers pristine state. To do so, this paper analyses the manner actors involved in the design and implementation of public policies try to render planning and crisis management consistent, thanks to common indicators. This paper discusses the manner actors create new rooms for maneuver by negotiating modeling methods and, by doing so, disarm environmental concerns.

This article proposes to analyze the heritagization’s process of Rio de Janeiro (« Rio de Janeiro, carioca landscapes between the mountain and the sea ») at the Unesco as a particular moment when relations between past, present and future are interrogated, in regard of their imbrications with the temporalities of the urban transformations that this city undergoes in the context of « mega-events ». Four moments of this process are analyzed as places of negotiation between the various historicity schemes, created and mobilized by the actors and their imbrications with the times of the urban transformation and those of sustainable development. The purpose is to decipher the imbrications between the temporal horizons of the actors in order to identify the various presents at work in the “make city".

Hong Kong is residence to around 200,000 Filipina domestic workers who have migrated to the city in order to earn money for their families and futures. The employment of these migrants is organized through temporary two-year contracts. However, since many women stay for 'multiple contracts' in Hong Kong, their situation may be better characterized as permanently temporary. In this respect, scholars have coined the term 'permanent temporariness', signifying both a specific experience of temporal or circular migration, as well as a sort of disciplinary mechanism that informs people's everyday lives. Lacking in these understandings, however, is a solid theoretical exploration of the temporal dimension. Based on ethnographic work, individual and group interviews, this article attempts to further the theoretical discussion on permanence and temporariness by focusing on the 'lived time' of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong. The article discusses how temporariness and permanence are enacted and experienced in the everyday lives of Filipina workers, how these women reflect on and cope with this, and, how this informs everyday life decisions and negotiations with employers. The study indicates that engaging permanently in temporary labour involves many uncertainties that are reflected in the domestic workers' experiences and decisions with respect to their migration trajectories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By focusing on the relations of intimacy between migrant wives working in Singapore and their left-behind husbands living in the Philippines, this article investigates how transnational couples negotiate the liminalities and temporariness embedded in the experience of labour migration. Using the timescales of migration as a conceptual frame, the article analyses the mutual, if uneven, shaping of marital relationships at the micro-timescale of transnational family time and the meso-timescale of Singapore's labour migration regime. It focuses on how 'doing family' across distance is centrally facilitated through the affordances of communication technologies to create rhythms and manage ruptures. These technologies are crucial in (re)making domestic family time in the transnational household. The way the micro-temporalities of transnational family life are reorganised works in tension with how couples negotiate liminal conditions imposed by Singapore's work permit and pass system. The article argues that temporariness and precarity, which deter the imagination of a stable future, are constantly negotiated in the lives of the transnational family through different temporal strategies. By bracketing off intense emotions and downplaying ruptures in relationships, the transnational family is able to focus on their future aspirations of achieving their projects through migration. As migration timelines are indefinitely extended and family separation is prolonged, the transnational family strives to endure through these strategies of (re)making their temporalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the disjunctures that exist between the temporalities of legal status and those of migrants' lived experiences, and explores the relationship between precarity and temporality. Ethnographic research conducted among recent migrants from China living in Perth, Western Australia with a focus on migrants who have been sponsored by employers to work and remain in Australia, demonstrates that while migrants may hold temporary or permanent visas, their migration objectives and settlement processes do not necessarily accord with their formal status. Many individuals who arrived in Australia with the intention of quickly attaining permanent residency find their plans are stymied by shifting circumstances and changes to migration legislation. They instead continue to experience the precarious employment, liminality and family disruption that come with a prolonged and indeterminate temporariness. Meanwhile others have become permanent residents despite arriving as self-imagined sojourners, employment in Australia very often only the next step in a series of temporary labour migrations. Even after many years of permanent status, however, these migrants commonly experience a limited sense of belonging and imagine futures that entail circular patterns of on-migration. The case studies presented disrupt the sense of permanence that is implied in secure legal statuses, and provide evidence of the lasting impact of precarious temporalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the ways in which Nepali migrants perceive, experience and rework their downward class mobilities within the processes of labour migration to South Korea (hereafter Korea). It focuses on the temporal dimension of the migration process in relation to the Korean labour migration regime in terms of three aspects: the temporariness of sojourn, temporal disjunctures and adaptations in workplaces, and temporal resynchronisation in transnational spaces. First, the article argues that the temporariness of their sojourn under the Employment Permit System (EPS) is perceived by migrants as a 'liminal time' or a 'time-out' from the life course, serving to make the precariousness of life and work bearable. Second, illustrating the subjective experiences of Nepali migrants as underclass workers in unfamiliar workplaces, the article argues that they experience their working-class positions through temporal disjunctures between time in Nepal and Korea, and heteronomous time as discipline under the EPS. Lastly, it is shown that their downward class identities are reworked by dividing working time and social time, with a further temporal resynchronisation between migrants and their homeland. The conceptual and empirical insights offered by this study aim to contribute to the discussions of temporalities of migration and class analysis of people on the move. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]