This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices. It includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries.

1. Introduction: Unpacking the temporalities of irregular migrationChristine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne KarlsenPART I: THE MULTIPLE TEMPOS OF WAITING2. The violence of accelerated time: Waiting and hasting during ‘the long summer of migration’ in GreeceKaterina Rozakou 3. ‘They said wait, wait – and I waited’: the Power-chronographies of waiting for asylum in FranceChristine M. Jacobsen4. Filling the apps: The smartphone, time and the refugeeThomas Hylland Eriksen PART II: THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF WAITING5. Mo’s challenge. Waiting and the question of methodological nationalismKari Anne Drangsland6. Migration control, temporal irregularity and waiting: Undocumented Zimbabwean migrants’ experiences of deportability in South AfricaJohannes Machinya7. Waiting out the condition of illegality in NorwayMarry-Anne Karlsen 8. ‘Go Fund Me’: LGBTI asylum seekers in Kakuma Refugee Camp, KenyaB CammingaPART III: LEGAL TEMPORALITIES AND WAITING9. The truth of the body as controversial evidence: An investigation into age assessments of migrant minors in FranceSandrine Musso10. An end to asylum? Temporary protection and the erosion of refugee statusJessica Schultz11. ‘Doin’ hard time on Planet Earth’: Migrant detainability, disciplinary power, and the disposability of lifeNicholas De Genova 12. Afterword: Waiting, a state of consciousnessShahram Khosravi