Introduction. Claiming time: Refugees and asylum seekers dealing with the production of different temporal regimes by asylum and reception policies,

In this introduction, therefore, we will scrutinize the expression “claiming time,” using a much richer horizon of meanings to examine our initial attempt to show how migrants strive to claim time within the dispositif of control, reception, and discipline. Our starting point is that when reasoning about the relationship between migration, time, and temporality, it is not sufficient to highlight the strategic role played by time in bordering and de-bordering practices. It is also important to analyze how the act of timing acquires a decisive role in the construction of the ’Other’ and the practice of “Otherness.”