Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource, 24 S.
Series Statement:
COMCAD Working Papers Bd. 157
DDC:
305.8
Abstract:
Abstract: This article gives insight to the unfulfilled expectations of young Malian men, who sought to make a better life through adventure on their way to Europe, but were forcefully returned home. By following their representations of life situations, their social and work environments, this text explores these realities as experienced in their daily lives and in actors' narrations. It further explores the trajectories of the young men in relation to work, mobility, and ideas of a better life, and analyzes to what extent their ideas and narrations contribute to the concepts of youth, migration, and work within the relevant literature. The key issue is that expectations for making a better life through migration remain unfulfilled as the actors - in most of the presented cases - never arrive to the originally desired places and cannot live out their aspirations. The following article shows how these young men cope with this situation and the subsequent consequences. For these men, the esta
Note:
Veröffentlichungsversion
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54613-8
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54613-8