Engaging in or retreating from cosmopolitanism? Times, temporalities and migration. Issue 6 (2nd November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Bingyu; Chen, Jingfu
• Is Part Of: Identities. Volume 29:Issue 6(2022)
• Page Start: 827
• Page End: 845
• Publication Date: 2022-11-02
• Subjects: Time -- temporality -- becoming (un)cosmopolitan -- migration -- diversity encounters -- Chinese in New Zealand; Ethnic groups -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Ethnic relations -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- Periodicals; Group identity -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2020.1863036
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1070-289X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the temporal dimensions in and consequences of migration from the perspective of how they are involved in both promoting and undermining cosmopolitan attitudes and practices amongst mobile subjects. Drawing on qualitative research with new Chinese migrants to New Zealand, the paper explores how their process of becoming cosmopolitan to participate in intercultural interactions is constructed differently in relation to momentary, everyday, remembered and imagined times/temporalities embedded in their lives. In particular, the paper asks whether and how migrant individuals navigate through temporal dissonance occurred across the migratory process by engaging in or retreating from cosmopolitanism. Essentially, this paper develops a temporally-sensitive theoretical approach to unpack how time and temporalities function in the migration process, especially how they articulate with the possibilities of migrant individuals encountering diversity and obtaining a sense of home in the host society, thus contributing to studies of cosmopolitanism and time in migration.