Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights
this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the
relationship between migration time and capitalism. While temporal reckoning has long
fascinated anthropologists few studies have sought to confront how capitalism fetishizes time
in the production of global inequalities-historically and in the contemporary world. As it
explores how the agendas of capitalism condition migration in Europe North America and
Oceania this collection also examines temporality as a feature of migrants' experiences to
ultimately provide a theoretically robust and ethnographically informed investigation of
migration and temporality within a framework defined by the political economy of capitalism.
