Exilés : habiter en attendant à l’hôtel
The article describes the waiting of exiled families staying in hotels. What is daily life like while waiting for papers for each family member, a permanent contract, housing? We propose to focus our attention on the relationship between the time lived and the material life, in other words space, ob...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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ADR Temporalités
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| Series: | Temporalités |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/8345 |
| Summary: | The article describes the waiting of exiled families staying in hotels. What is daily life like while waiting for papers for each family member, a permanent contract, housing? We propose to focus our attention on the relationship between the time lived and the material life, in other words space, objects, money, administrative papers, undeclared jobs, concrete exchanges, too often evacuated from sociological research on exile. Because the living space gives a particular substance to waiting, we propose to seize these social temporalities as particular configurations of the relations between space and time. The ethnographic survey conducted in four hotels in the Oise and Ile-de-France regions of France underlines the extent to which waiting has a very material reality. Families live between the impossibility of settling in France - in the sense of the common law of “taking up residence” - and the time that carves their presence, accumulating relationships and experiences. A form of paradox between the precariousness of status and the thickness of time lived. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-9006 2102-5878 |