A Matter of Time: Anticipation Work and Digital Temporalities in Refugee Humanitarian Assistance in Turkey

4Citations
Citations of this article
23Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.
Get full text

Abstract

Scholarly work interrogating time and temporality in CSCW predominantly focuses on the temporal coordination of work in high-resource settings and is usually based in Global North. This paper aims to complicate and complement this scholarship by investigating the temporal entanglements of digital humanitarian work with refugees and asylum seekers in Turkey during COVID-19. We interviewed 22 humanitarian workers to understand their experiences and concerns as well as strategies they employed to support refugees and immigrants at a distance. The data reveal the complex temporal, informational, and infrastructural dimensions of technologically-mediated refugee support work, challenging the trope of "pivot to remote work", as popular in western countries. Our findings contribute to the CSCW research on the theory of anticipation work and its relationship with the concept of collaborative rhythms to explicate the relational and situated aspects of the temporal experiences of humanitarian workers in low-resource settings.

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Ekmekcioglu, C., Chandra, P., & Ahmed, S. I. (2023). A Matter of Time: Anticipation Work and Digital Temporalities in Refugee Humanitarian Assistance in Turkey. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(1 CSCW). https://doi.org/10.1145/3579455

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free