‘Not Knowing When It's Going to Happen and What's Going to Happen’: The Time Politics of Applying for a Residence Permit in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00134210" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00134210 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/pdfs/csr/2023/03/02.pdf" target="_blank" >https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/pdfs/csr/2023/03/02.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2023.036" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2023.036</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Not Knowing When It's Going to Happen and What's Going to Happen’: The Time Politics of Applying for a Residence Permit in the Czech Republic
Original language description
This study focuses on the time politics involved in applying for a residence permit in the Czech Republic, with a focus on non-European Union (EU) applicants. It examines how governmentality and state superiority are represented and performed within the bureaucratic procedure of the application process. Based on the results, I argue that the application process bureaucracy is tied to time politics - practices that govern others through time. The paper is based on research realised in Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, and uses qualitative, ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews with immigrants from non-EU countries who applied for a long-term residence permit. The paper examines time politics within this process, highlighting its unpredictability, disrupted temporal linearity and chrononormativity. In this context, the respondents describe the waiting period as a moment of being in between - temporally, spatially and socially. Therefore, I argue that the time politics experienced throughout the application process significantly influences the lives of applicants. The interviews revealed that the applicants were caught in a liminal position with an uncertain ending, exemplified by the impossibility of moving (temporally, spatially and socially) - a feeling often described as stuckedness. Consequently, this time politics and the temporal inequality and disadvantages experienced during the process contribute to exclusion from mainstream Czech society and produce structural invisibility.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50700 - Social and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-05096S" target="_blank" >GA23-05096S: Geographies of Crip Temporalities: Time in Everydayness of People with Disabilities</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociologický časopis
ISSN
0038-0288
e-ISSN
2336-128X
Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
293-314
UT code for WoS article
001066162500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85171782971