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This chapter thus seeks to explore the temporal and spatial dimensions
of Lisbon as an interlude in ongoing migration projects. It is based on
fieldwork conducted in the ambit of a project on the socio-spatial integra tion of migrants living in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (McGarrigle,
2016). While the study was wider in its scope – including further neigh bourhood case studies and Portuguese-speaking post-colonial migrantion populations with historical links to the country´s history – in this chapter
we focus on a sub-sample of more recent migrants from Bangladesh,
Pakistan and India. It draws on narratives from 45 interviews on
migration trajectories, the process of settling in the city, experiences of
living in Lisbon and future migration aspirations. Interviews were
conducted, following snowball sampling, between 2012 and 2014 in two
areas important for South Asian migrants living and entering the city: the
diverse inner-city neighbourhood of Mouraria and the suburban area of
Odivelas, where contacts were made at a Sikh place of worship (Gurd wara) for Punjabi-born people (a relatively recently settled community in
Lisbon).1 The sample is largely male (42) due to difficulties in interview ing females (three), who are fewer in number and less present in the
public sphere. Time of arrival in Portugal ranges between 1996 and 2014;
however the vast majority arrived from around 2006 onwards
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Migration Temporal dimensions Spatial dimensions Lisbon
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Citation
McGarrigle, J. & Ascensão, E. (2017). Temporalities of onward migration: long-term temporariness, cyclical labour arrangements and lived time in the city. In E. Mavroudi, B. Page & A. Christou (eds.). Timespace and International Migration (pp. 77-90). Edward Elgar Publishers