Paper short abstract:

I here address the temporal dimension for an understanding of migration as subjective experience focusing on the case-study on crossing-border mobilities of temporary refugees between Italy and Germany. Their everyday live in Milan and Berlin, together with their contested mobilities will be exposed

Paper long abstract:

Addressing the focus on temporal dimension to migration, mobility and displacement studies is a crucial insight for a in-depth understanding of such complex phenomena in the globalization age. In my work I refer to the studies that focus on time rather than space dimension, underlining how migrants' experiences are characterized by flows and moments, rhythms and cycles, tempos, synchronicity and disjuncture, and the future (Griffiths et al. 2013; Anderson R., 2014). Drawn on 20 months (October 2013 - August 2015) of fieldwork in Milan and Berlin using multi-sited ethnography, my work investigates the everyday experiences of a group of temporary refugees and their contested crossing-border mobilities in Europe. Specifically, I will focus on the everyday life of my research protagonists in both cities and in the "illegal" movements across the national borders in order to highlights how the temporariness and waiting condition, typical of the refugees' camps, is reproduced and lengthen also in the urban space. Indeed, my research protagonists experience a strengthen and lengthen transit condition, that assume a spatial, temporal and juridical dimension. Furthermore, they internalize the transit becoming thus an existential statement that allows me to speak about "subjectivities en transit" across Europe. The theoretical attempt is here to underline how the frictions between the European border regime and the attempts to autonomously move and live enacted by the temporary refugees lead to the creation of lengthen temporal thresholds that caught migrant subjects in fragmented circuits of mobility within Europe.