ABSTRACT
This chapter is an exploration of the dialectical relationship between scales of space and time as it is refracted through the processes of migration. It considers how the multitemporalities of uneven development intervene in the social relations of work and family that prevail amongst the spatially mobile. By focusing on migrants who pursue a livelihood in the service economy of Paris and who have relocated from re-structured economies of the Northeastern provinces of China, the chapter illuminates the ways in which the exigencies of transnational care work subordinate women to the temporal and spatial prerogatives of accumulation and capitalist reproduction. It does so by directing attention to the bodily scale of bio-rhythms to explore how non-synchronicity and temporal ruptures are manifested in the lives of those who are engaged in the work of sustaining and maintaining people under the liberalizing political and economic regimes of late capitalism.
