Telling the Sudanese story in Athens through a gender lens

Leontsini, Mary; Lyberaki, Antigone

doi:10.1080/14725843.2015.1074539

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“…But women in Sudan do migrate, and they are just as much displaced by ecological and economic warfare. Their different trajectories reveal how mobility is gendered such that while men and women both migrate, they become channeled into different labor (Abusharaf 2009; Grabska and Fanjoy 2015; Leontsini and Lyberaki 2015). Bashir's sister offers a case in point.…”

Section: Gendered Routesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Life is a Gamble”

Reumert¹

2023

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article foregrounds the returns of migration by following young migrant workers to Lebanon and back to subsistence farming communities in western Sudan during a time of revolution and economic crisis in both countries. Their labor and the returns of it connect these two seemingly distinct zones of labor and production in a transregional economy, linking East Africa to the Middle East. In this cross-border economy, the search for work through mobility has become a point of value extraction by brokers and border guards, and at the same time a practice of gendered self-validation for male migrants. In Sudan, migrants and brokers both refer to this practice as a gamble, mughamara. Proposing mughamara as an ethnographic concept of mobility, I show how young migrants use this term to validate themselves through migration. Comparing their experiences to Sudanese migrants who worked in Lebanon decades before them, I show how the youth’s presentation of mobility as a necessary gamble with life reveals an underlying generational experience of crisis and the foreclosure of class mobility. In a political and socioeconomic context where migrant workers often feel devalued in and by labor, mobility is presented as their only way forward—as well as their ticket home.

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Section: Gendered Routesmentioning

confidence: 99%