| Sumario: | Research on waiting as an affective atmosphere has primarily focused on physical spaces. By contrast, our article investigates the affective experience of migrant waiting by turning attention beyond the physical and exploring waiting as an affective encounter between migrants and the immigration system with which they are involved. Drawing on four case studies of women on temporary visas who experienced waiting for a migration outcome in the Australian context, we use the conceptual framework of affective atmospheres to explore how waiting follows these women as they go about their everyday lives, creating a form of structural violence with gendered and racialised impacts. We argue that this experience is best understood as 'ubiquitous waiting' and use our analysis to highlight how its pervasiveness causes harm. By additionally exploring how, in our sample, ubiquitous waiting intersected with the women's experiences of interpersonal abuse, we further highlight how the detrimental harms of migrant waiting can be exacerbated by other, often gendered, forms of violence.
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