Stealing Time

lt;p>Dr. Bhatia's research interests lie in the areas of asylum, state racism and violence, specifically the treatment of individuals by the criminal justice and immigration systems. He has published several articles and chapters and is Co-Editor of Media, Crime and Racism (2018), Critical Engagements with Border, Racisms and State Violence (Critical Criminology, 2020) and Race, Mental Health and State Violence (Race & Class, 2021).  

Dr. Canning's research and teaching interests lie in the areas of gendered harms, state power and violence, specifically in trajectories of violence in the lives of women seeking asylum. She has published several articles, chapters and books, including Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System (winner of the British Criminology Society book prize, 2018), Sites of Confinement: Prisons, Punishment and Detention (2014) and From Social Harm to Zemiology (2021, forthcoming).

 Dr. Victoria Canning, University of Bristol.

Introduction: Contested Temporalities, Time and State Violence Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning.- Chapter 1: "My Beloved Will Come Today or Tomorrow": Time and the "Left Behind" Liza Schuster, Reza Hussaini, Mona Hossaini, Razia Rezaie and Mohammad Riaz Khan Shinwari.- Chapter 2: Journeying and Encampment: Expanded Liminality and Protracted Refugee Temporalities Karam Yahya.- Chapter 3: Micropolitics of Time: Asylum Regimes, Temporalities and Everyday forms of Power Isabel Meier & Giorgia Donà.- Chapter 4: The Weaponisation of Time: Indefinite Detention as Torture Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani.- Chapter 5: Contested Dreams, Stolen Futures: Struggles over Hope in the European Deportation Regime Annika Lindberg and Stanley Edward.- Chapter 6: Compounding Trauma through Temporal Harm Victoria Canning.- Chapter 7: "Starting from Scratch?": Adaptation After Deportation and Return Migration Among Young Mexican Migrants Alexis M. Silver, Melissa A. Manzanares and Liron Goldring.- Chapter 8: The Mexico City Runaround: Temporal Barriers to Rebuilding Life After Deportation Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz.- Chapter 9: Migration, Temporality and Violence in India: From Border Killings to National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act Monish Bhatia.- Chapter 10: The Violence Continuum: Border Crossings, Death and Time on the Island of Lesvos Evgenia Iliadou.- Epilogue Bridget Anderson. 

"Stealing Time is an important and readable collection of well written chapters, well put together. Its committed combination of critical research and exemplifying activism works." (Scott Poynting, State Crime Journal, Vol. 12 (1), 2023)

"This interdisciplinary volume brings together accounts of how states use time as a weapon in different ways in their efforts to fight irregular migration. ... This timely volume elucidates a number of aspects linking time management, control of people through detention practices and administrative procedures within which people on the move become trapped with systemic harm." (Yasha Maccanico, statewatch.org, November 18, 2021)

“This interdisciplinary volume brings together accounts of how states use time as a weapon in different ways in their efforts to fight irregular migration. … This timely volume elucidates a number of aspects linking time management, control of people through detention practices and administrative procedures within which people on the move become trapped with systemic harm.” (Yasha Maccanico, statewatch.org, November 18, 2021)