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Vortrag im Oberseminar

Am Montag, den 15. Januar 2018 hält Dr. Nauja Kleist einen Vortrag über "Hope and uncertainty in African migration – a case study of involuntary return to Ghana".

15.01.2018 um 18:00 Uhr

Dr. Nauja Kleist (Danish Institute for International Studies, Kopenhagen)

Hope and uncertainty in African migration – a case study of involuntary return to Ghana

Contemporary migration is characterized by a mobility paradox. The increased reach and accessibility of communication, media and transport technologies mean that people in many parts of the world are exposed to visions of the good life and future elsewhere while restrictive mobility regimes makes access to the global circuits of legal mobility increasingly difficult. How do migrants respond to this situation and imagine their mobility, life and future? In this lecture, I argue that hope constitutes a productive analytical framework for studies of migration in the light of this mobility paradox, examined through a case study of involuntary return to Ghana. Based on fieldwork among Ghanaian deportees and other involuntary return migrants, I explore trajectories of social and spatial (im)mobility, how returnees relate to notions of the good life and future, and their temporal and spatial projections. Returning involuntarily often implies socio-economic problems, the at least temporary end to (some) transnational practices, and it is widely embedded in a sense of individualized failure, despite widespread local knowledge of the uncertainty related to high-risk migration. I suggest that this conundrum is an expression of the local persistence of international migration as a repository of hope for a better and livable future. By implication, involuntary return constitutes both a disruption of mobile livelihoods as well as the hopes underpinning them.

Wann?     Montag, 15. Januar 2018 , 18 Uhr
Wo?         Institut für Ethnologie, Oettingenstraße 67, 80538 München
                Raum L155 (Obergeschoss) Lageplan

 

Für die Veranstaltungsreihe hat Herr Prof. Dr. Martin Sökefeld in diesem Semester ein vielseitiges Programm mit interessanten Themen und ReferentInnen zusammengestellt.

Mehr Informationen über Vorträge Institut für Ethnologie für das Wintersemester 2017/18 finden Sie unter  „Veranstaltungen".


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