»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.