This article deals with the practices of South Asian migrant workers appropriating space in Muscat, Oman. Due to temporary employment contracts, low income, and long working hours, in addition to living in a fragmented car‐dependent city, their access to the city is spatially and temporally limited. This raises the question of their opportunities and limitations for space appropriation in Muscat. In this paper, we first describe the urban and political context that leads to their limitations and temporalities. We then establish a theoretical framework to define the roles of space, migration, and time. Adopting a qualitative approach combining interviews and observation, we then focus on one location as a case study and analyse how its visitors, low‐income and middle‐income migrant workers, appropriate space according to their daily needs. Highlighting the tension between rigid constraints and constant change, we conclude by presenting the social and spatial products of the process of space appropriation and respond to the discourse on the production of space through the lens of temporary migration.

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应对临时性：阿曼马斯喀特南亚移民的空间占用


本文介绍了南亚移民工人在阿曼马斯喀特占用空间的做法。由于临时雇佣合同、低收入和长工作时间，加上生活在一个碎片化的汽车依赖型城市，他们进入城市的空间和时间都受到限制。这就提出了他们在马斯喀特占用空间的机会和限制的问题。在本文中，我们首先描述导致其局限性和暂时性的城市和政治背景。然后，我们建立一个理论框架来定义空间、迁移和时间的作用。我们采用访谈与观察相结合的定性方法，以一个地点为案例研究，分析该地点的游客、低收入和中等收入农民工如何根据他们的日常需求来分配合适的空间。最后，我们强调了严格的约束和不断变化之间的张力，展示了空间占用过程中的社会和空间产品，并通过临时移民的视角回应了关于空间生产的话语。