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Achieving the goals - an analysis of irregular migrants' possibilities to transform their space-times in Finland
Authors: Gadd Katri
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Commercial Publisher)
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
Journal name in source: GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B-HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Journal acronym: GEOGR ANN B
Volume: 104
Issue: 2
First page : 112
Last page: 126
Number of pages: 15
ISSN: 0435-3684
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2021.1958358
Web address : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04353684.2021.1958358
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/69102865
This article demonstrates the usefulness of time-geographic approach in research with irregular migrants. Time-geographic approach acknowledges individual space-times as being assembled of multiple elements (e.g. housing, the Internet, friend, fear, legal status). Through an ethnographic research with 50 irregular migrants in Finland, I demonstrate how these irregular migrants try to transform their space-times in order to overcome the adversities in their lives. To transform one's space-times, it is necessary to intervene on the elements that affect it. Irregular migrants in this research transform their space-times, by trying to withdraw from constraining elements (e.g. unpleasant places, dangerous people, fears) and approaching inciting elements (e.g. safe place, friend, knowledge). In this article, I suggest this theoretical-methodological framework to investigate the interlinkages of these multiple elements in the lives of irregular migrants.
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