ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three temporal interactions: the homeland relationship of the post-war refugees, the temporal significance of the Cold War for Polish migration and transnationalism, and the possibility of living in two places at the same time for the most recent migrants. It demonstrates how time, as much as space, is at the heart of the transnational experience. Moving to another country and then sustaining ties back again fundamentally reconfigures the temporal lives of migrants in many different ways. The Polish example has highlighted key scales of this temporal repositioning. The chapter demonstrates the enormous impact that transnationalism exerts over personal experiences of time on an even smaller scale. For the most recent migrants, transnationalism is a time-consuming part of everyday life, seeping into daily decisions and structures. The chapter is based on a series of in-depth interviews with Polish migrants in Britain in the Midlands region; to protect the identities of the respondent's pseudonyms.
