»Failed« Migratory Adventures? : : Malian Men Facing Conditions Post Deportation in Southern Mali.
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Superior document: | Kultur und soziale Praxis |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2022. {copy}2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Kultur und soziale Praxis
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
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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.