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Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global SouthSeeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad

Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South: Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making... [Whilst migration is a common feature of the human past, it plays an especially prominent role in the history of the Sahel, particularly in the Soninke country. After outlining that history, this chapter explores the oral testimony of migration as experienced and imagined by different protagonists. A particular focus lies on the last station of the long migration process: South East Asia, discovered by Sahelian migrants in the 1980s. The chapter questions popular concepts in migration studies, such as exile, and emphasises migrants’ key resource/philosophy: trying to be successful in a foreign country and thereby transforming it into one’s own home. This dynamic is seen to be at the core of the migration process since “A young man’s homeland is wherever he finds success”. To do so, migrant entrepreneurs mobilise a whole range of “socio-material infrastructure” (Urry 2003; 2007) which permits them to distance themselves from their country of origin without actually cutting the umbilical cord.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global SouthSeeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Anthony, Ross; Ruppert, Uta
Diawara, Mamadou
Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South — Nov 2, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-28310-0
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197 –222
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10.1007/978-3-030-28311-7_10
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Abstract

[Whilst migration is a common feature of the human past, it plays an especially prominent role in the history of the Sahel, particularly in the Soninke country. After outlining that history, this chapter explores the oral testimony of migration as experienced and imagined by different protagonists. A particular focus lies on the last station of the long migration process: South East Asia, discovered by Sahelian migrants in the 1980s. The chapter questions popular concepts in migration studies, such as exile, and emphasises migrants’ key resource/philosophy: trying to be successful in a foreign country and thereby transforming it into one’s own home. This dynamic is seen to be at the core of the migration process since “A young man’s homeland is wherever he finds success”. To do so, migrant entrepreneurs mobilise a whole range of “socio-material infrastructure” (Urry 2003; 2007) which permits them to distance themselves from their country of origin without actually cutting the umbilical cord.]

Published: Nov 2, 2019

Keywords: Exile; At home; Migration; Sahel; Southeast Asia; Traders

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