Editorial

The current issue features our typical collection of empirically, primarily ethnographically, based articles that paint a nuanced picture of topics of contemporary concern. Connecting these individual articles are two key themes: mobility and displacement, and temporal entanglement in the production of subjectivities. They explore how in movement (familiar and unfamiliar) pasts and (imagined and impossible) futures get entangled with structural forces such as state violence, bureaucratic hurdles, and postcolonial power dynamics. They point out how this co-constitution gives rise to relatively stable or recognisable identifications and patterning that are, nevertheless, marked by contradictions, ambiguities, and open boundaries.