This innovative collection of essays on contemporary migration literature and culture in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality. The authors address the role of integration, waiting, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures in narratives of the European refugee crisis and migrant border-crossings.

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Temporalities of Cross-Border Migration, Jopi Nyman, Johan Schimanski, and Carmen Zamorano LlenaPart One: Pasts and Futures: Migrants in/to EuropeChapter One: Border Temporalities, Temporal Borders: Migratory Border-Crossings in Literature and Other Discourses, Johan SchimanskiChapter Two: Spatiotemporal Palimpsests, Remembered Times, and Hybrid Temporalities in Literary and Graphic Narratives on Europe’s Refugee ‘Crisis’, Olga MichaelChapter Three: “I’ll never let myself die in a strange land that doesn’t want me”: A Life Course Approach to the Temporal Subjectivities of Older Migrants in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift, Carmen Zamorano LlenaPart Two: Eldorados in Future: Migrants in/to SpainChapter Four: Temporalities of Crossing in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Jopi NymanChapter Five: Lost Pasts and Rescued Traumas: Migration and Temporality in Rafael Chirbes’ En la orilla, Carolina León VegasChapter Six: Time, Caves, and Other Limboscapes in Three Contemporary Migrant Narratives, Carles Magrinyà BadiellaPart Three: Living through Times of MigrationChapter Seven: Investing in Immigrants as a Permanent Resource: The Local Integration Strategies of a Peripheral Town, Ágnes Németh and Sarolta NémethChapter Eight: The Narrative Practice of Ruth Reese: Blackness, Temporality, and Braiding Time in Norway, Michelle A. TisdelAbout the Contributors