This article explores how multiple layers of spacetimes overlap and merge in individuals’ lives and relationships, transforming, enhancing, and/or hampering their abilities to interact with the environment. Drawing upon content-analysed ethnographic notes, the article investigates the case of irregular migrants in Finland. It shows how their past activities, practices, and relationships, as well as their hopes and fears for the future, materially shape their now-times. The latter change and evolve through a relentless combination of different past and future elements, in multiple, disparate, and often contradictory ways. This article considers how these migrants survive by inventing new activities and practices and building social relationships (with local residents and their own communities) on a daily basis, negotiating disparate elements, such as laws, digital and physical spaces, and work- and health-related issues. In so doing, migrants acquire, in roundabout (non-linear) ways, the knowledge and capacity to deal with their current, stressful conditions. The article shows how a spatio-temporal approach can transform the emotional geographies of irregular migrants by shedding light on how they navigate the disparate and often conflicting elements of their lives, activities, and relationships.

中文翻译：

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芬兰非正常移民日常生活中的多个时空

本文探讨了多个时空层如何在个人的生活和关系中重叠和融合，从而改变、增强和/或阻碍他们与环境互动的能力。根据内容分析的民族志笔记，文章调查了芬兰的非正常移民案件。它展示了他们过去的活动、实践和关系，以及他们对未来的希望和恐惧，如何在物质上塑造他们现在的时代。后者通过不同的过去和未来元素的无情组合，以多种、不同且通常相互矛盾的方式发生变化和演变。本文考虑了这些移民如何通过每天发明新的活动和实践以及建立社会关系（与当地居民和他们自己的社区）、谈判不同的因素、例如法律、数字和物理空间以及与工作和健康相关的问题。通过这样做，移民以迂回（非线性）的方式获得了应对当前压力状况的知识和能力。这篇文章展示了时空方法如何通过阐明非正常移民如何驾驭他们生活、活动和关系中不同且往往相互冲突的元素来改变他们的情感地理。