Pragmatic Mobilities and Uncertain Lives
Agency and the Everyday Mobility of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12212529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan Joseph O’byrne (0000-0003-4518-1127, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK, corresponding author), Charles Ogeno (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK; Centre for Africa Research-Northern Uganda Research Centre, Gulu, Uganda) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 747-765 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6328 • E-ISSN: 1471-6925 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrs/feaa085 |
| OpenAlex | W3133411127 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article investigates the pragmatic, everyday journeys of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda’s Palabek Refugee Settlement through a mobilities-focused analytical lens. Despite the repatriation of vast numbers of refugees, little is known about the diversity of refugees’ later movements. Recognition of this complexity is important. Although many of our South Sudanese interlocutors take part in multiple interconnected movements both within and across borders, these are frequently irregular and unpredictable. We define these refugees’ ‘pragmatic mobilities’ as ‘the experience and practice of multiple, distinct yet interconnected mobilities, despite trying times and unknowable circumstances’, thereby attending to the fractured (dis)junctures between these journeys as well as to their full temporal and geographical scope. By setting the practice and experience of South Sudanese refugees’ ongoing and everyday mobilities within wider personal and regional historical perspectives, we argue that the diversities within these refugees’ ‘pragmatic mobility’ practices demonstrate powerful manifestations of agency. We consequently understand these movements to be essential elements within everyday—yet crucial—practices to gain and maintain personal and collective control in otherwise uncertain contexts
Agency (philosophy · Diversity (politics · Everyday life · Mobilities · Political science · Refugee · Repatriation · Scope (computer science · Settlement (finance · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security · Gender Studies · Law
Translocal Dynamics and (Im)Mobilities in Conflict
Land for refugees
Survivalist mobilities
Chronicity of self-harming behaviors among adolescent teenage girls living in refugee settlements in Northern Uganda
Refugee journey infrastructures
Think Positive, Save a Life”? Resilience and Mental Health Interventions as Political Abandonment in a Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda
Conceptual Resilience in the Language and Lives of Resilient People
Resistant Resilience
Protection and Containment
Dodgy Paperwork and Theories of Citizenship on the Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan Borders
Suspicious business
Returning to fund refugeehood
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |