»Failed« Migratory Adventures? : : Malian Men Facing Conditions Post Deportation in Southern Mali.

• Superior document: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Author: Schultz, Susanne U.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2022.; {copy}2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Toward embedding "failed" migratory adventures in southern Mali -- Hazards, survival, and loss in adventure - the emblem of returning empty‑handed -- The specificities of (post-)deportation in Mali -- Toward the topic and question: "failed" migratory adventures under post‑deportation conditions in southern Mali -- Literary reminiscences - the "failed" hero? -- The migratory adventure -- Deportations and the supposed ''failure'' of the migratory adventure -- Central questions, aims, and contentions -- Everybody is a refoulé -- Embedding research situations post‑deportation in Mali -- Deportability and deportation as a process over time and space -- Structure and aims of the book -- Chapter 2 - Contextualizing and historicizing deportations and situations post‐deportation in Mali -- Mali, migrations, mobilities, and immobility -- Histories of migration, mobility, and immobility -- Histories of African deportations -- The case of Libya and progressive EU externalization -- Reactions to deportations and returns in Mali -- Recent deportation regimes and reactions -- The case of Kita, reversed migrations and deteriorated developments -- Kita research sites -- Bamako - hub of migration, return, and transit -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3 - Methodology in context -- In the field: associations, activists, and deportations "everywhere" -- Shifting positionalities in action research among associations and activists -- Accessing and researching with former deportees -- Extending the site to the village. Researching post deportation in the rural hinterland -- Collaborating with a co‐researcher - considerations of give and take -- Methods, sampling and data gathering in polyphony -- Analyzing along the general lines of grounded theory.

How to study conditions post deportation? Concluding reflections -- Chapter 4 - "The adventure is not easy." - Narrating forms of suffering in deportation experiences -- Experiencing North African deportation regimes -- Within the externalized transit corridor -- "Having something in the head." - Stress, violence, and pain after deportations -- Shock, alienation, and the luck of survival -- "Legal violence" in European deportation regimes -- Accounts of trauma and self‐organized groups as intermediaries -- Spatial and temporal disorders over time -- Symbolism of the state -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5 - "It's [not] all about money." - About returning with empty hands and relational (re)negotiations in the adventurer's drama of return -- Salif, Karim and returning to the village: "tounga man ja" -- Yakouba's return with some money -- Searching for money, "success," and the meaning of contributing -- Social and familial renegotiations and positioning post deportation -- On shame and "fa den sago -- Ambivalent (intimate) relations post deportation -- Revisiting the social order - talking or not talking -- Gossiping and mothers' roles in the adventurer's success -- The power of silence -- The ambivalent role of money and debt under post‐deportation conditions -- Revisiting the meaning of money, potential debts and reciprocities -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 6 - "On se débrouille." - (Re)negotiating masculinities after deportation through everyday suffering, hard work, and (im)mobilities -- Studying masculinities and "failed" migration -- "I am obliged to stay where I am." - Restricted mobilities, suffering, and working in Bamako -- "As a man, you have to be strong where you are!"- Suffering and courage in the rural hinterland -- Active waiting -- Intersections of courage, suffering, and adventure -- On "adventure‐hood" and adulthood as a man.

Agricultural hardships and "back to the soil" ? -- The question of marriage after deportation -- Generational discrepancies and generations of deportees -- Concluding remarks: assembling deportee masculinities ? -- Chapter 7 - "Si j'ai la chance." - Final sense- and future‐making of "failed" adventures post deportation -- Approaches to la chance - Adama and the past chance of the adventure -- On chances, luck, and destiny -- The adventurer's "failures," risks, and chances -- Religious and ritualistic inscriptions of "failed" adventures -- Maraboutage and calling on higher spirits for la chance in adventures -- Approaching the future - (un)certainties and contingency under post‑deportation conditions -- Future plans and aspirations - between planning and vague disorientation -- Revisiting the imaginary of migratory success -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 8 - Conclusion -- Facing conditions post deportation in southern Mali - a short summary -- Supposed "failed" migratory adventures and sociological ambivalence -- Back to the political and what remains to be done -- Glossary -- Bibliography.