ABSTRACT

This article demonstrates the usefulness of time-geographic approach in research with irregular migrants. Time-geographic approach acknowledges individual space-times as being assembled of multiple elements (e.g. housing, the Internet, friend, fear, legal status). Through an ethnographic research with 50 irregular migrants in Finland, I demonstrate how these irregular migrants try to transform their space-times in order to overcome the adversities in their lives. To transform one’s space-times, it is necessary to intervene on the elements that affect it. Irregular migrants in this research transform their space-times, by trying to withdraw from constraining elements (e.g. unpleasant places, dangerous people, fears) and approaching inciting elements (e.g. safe place, friend, knowledge). In this article, I suggest this theoretical-methodological framework to investigate the interlinkages of these multiple elements in the lives of irregular migrants.

摘要

本文展示了时间-地理方法在研究非正规移民方面的有用性。时间地理方法承认个体时空是由多种元素（例如住房、互联网、朋友、恐惧、法律地位）组合而成的。通过对芬兰 50 名非正规移民的民族志研究，我展示了这些非正规移民如何试图改变他们的时空，以克服他们生活中的逆境。为了改变一个人的时空，有必要干预影响它的元素。本研究中的非正常移民改变了他们的时空，通过试图退出限制因素（例如不愉快的地方、危险的人、恐惧）和接近煽动因素（例如安全的地方、朋友、知识）。在本文中，