Author name: The Lab's Quarterly

Author: Giulia Dugar Abstract Japan has only very recently started to be conceived as a migration destination country, however, since the 1970s, its immigration has shown steadily growing numbers, highlighting the importance for re-searchers to shed light on the specificities of the Japanese immigration phenomenon. Nevertheless, the Japanese legal immigration framework is still considered inadequate […]

Author: Franca Zadra Abstract Time has been gaining migration scholars’ attention as a lens that complements the focus on spatiality that characterizes migration studies. The role of temporal dynamics in limiting the agency of migrant labour is an underdeveloped research issue. Particularly referring to migrants with legal status insecurity, not having acquired long-term residence permits

Author: Serena Scarabello, Eriselda Shkopi Abstract This paper offers a reflection on the ‘lost encounters’ between government policies’ temporalities and individual life trajectories’ of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy, focusing on how these time discrepancies may reveal the conditions to remain in, or fall into, exploitative working situations and/or social marginalisation/isolation. As Robertson (2019),