"Failed" Migratory Adventures?

Susanne U. Schultz holds a PhD from the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, where she is an associated research fellow at the Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD). Her research focuses on (return) migration and West Africa. She currently works in the area of migration and Africa at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, focusing on legal pathways and political cooperation.

• Foreword; Introduction: Toward embedding "failed" migratory adventures in southern Mali; Contextualizing and historicizing deportations and situations post-deportation in Mali; Methodology in context; "The adventure is not easy." Narrating forms of suffering in deportation experiences; "It's [not] all about money." About returning with empty hands and relational (re)negotiations in the adventurer's drama of return; "On se débrouille." (Re)negotiating masculinities after deportation through everyday suffering, hard work, and (im)mobilities; "Si j'ai la chance." Final sense- and future-making of "failed" adventures post deportation; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography.