Paused subjects: Waiting for migration in North Africa

In this paper, I reflect on the ways in which waiting for migration requires, nurtures and ultimately produces specific kinds of subjects in a part of the world marked by decades of transnational movement towards Europe. Drawing on my ethnographic research in emigrant areas of Morocco, I trace how w...

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Published inTime & society Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 102 - 116
Main Author Elliot, Alice
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2016
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Emigration
Ethnographic research
Ethnography
Females
Husbands
Migrants
Migration
Mobility
Noncitizens
Proximity
Social relations
Transnationalism
Waiting period
Wives
Women
Morocco
migration
Morocco
gender
personhood
Waiting
women
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ISSN0961-463X
1461-7463
DOI10.1177/0961463X15588090

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Summary:In this paper, I reflect on the ways in which waiting for migration requires, nurtures and ultimately produces specific kinds of subjects in a part of the world marked by decades of transnational movement towards Europe. Drawing on my ethnographic research in emigrant areas of Morocco, I trace how waiting is a constitutive element not only of migration, but also of the subjects involved in its encompassing and multidirectional processes. To do this, I trace the ways in which waiting is spoken of, embodied and reckoned with in the areas by not (yet) migrants. Focusing in particular on the experience of women married to absent migrant husbands, the paper shows how waiting in Morocco engenders specific types of people with specific kinds of social relations, interceding into the very ways in which selves in proximity of transnational mobility emerge.
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ISSN:0961-463X
1461-7463
DOI:10.1177/0961463X15588090