Abstract
This paper examines Syrian refugee women's experiences of waiting in border areas. Living in the temporality of war and refugee status, war refugees are subject to various forms of waiting. These are constitutive of the temporal dispositions and strategies with which they negotiate the vicissitudes of war, the precariousness of refugee life, their emotionally and politically charged sojourn in transitory contexts, and their expectation oriented towards a future where the war will be over. Drawing on the anthropological concepts of waiting, patience and migration, this talk looks at the different forms of waiting. It highlights different feelings, practices, discourses and imaginations arising from the experience of waiting of people living in the wake of states of exception resulting from long conflicts.
