The adventure is not easy.” The Discretionary Politics of Social Suffering and Agency in Post-Deportation Narratives in Southern Mali

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11802002
AutoresSusanne U Schultz (0000-0003-1690-0137, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen10
Número3
Páginas101-114
Fecha de publicación2021-08-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2202-7998 • E-ISSN: 2202-8005
EditorialQueensland University of Technology (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.5204/ijcjsd.2044
OpenAlexW3197648264
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in the West African state of Mali (2014–2016), this article delves into the local, national, and transnational effects of (externalized) European and North African deportation regimes and reactions to them by civil society actors and deportees themselves. This work aims to contribute to a better understanding of how geographical, physical, social, and psychological spaces are reshaped through interactions with bordering practices. Deportation generally takes the form of (il)legal, bureaucratic measures and violent interventions that are perceived as deeply unjust. They generate anger, alienation, and uncertainty among those deported and their families and associates. By seeking patterns in the accounts of social suffering in deportees’ narratives, the article seeks, empirically and analytically, to unravel multilevel bordering practices through examining localized, agentic forms of bordering power. The post-deportation context involves southern Mali, an area subject to dramatic desertification and loss of sustainable livelihoods

Agency (philosophy · Alienation · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Deportation · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature