My doctoral thesis Punctuated Lives: Student-Migrant-Workers' Encounters with the Temporal Border Regime (to be defended in August 2021) examines the production of student-migrant-workers. Based on interview data with migrants from various non-EU countries residing on a student visa in Finland, it analyses the impact of the border regime in creating a flexible and precarious labour force, the temporal reverberations of borders as well as subjective efforts of challenging the borders. The thesis further develops the analysis of borders and migratory movements in relation to capitalist value accumulation.

Keywords: autonomy of migration, borders, labour force, Marxian theory, precarization, subjectivity, student-migration, temporality