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Public Lecture: Beyond categories: Self-categorization of people on the move in the Sudans; Speaker: Ulrike Schultz

February 4 @ 3:00 pm 4:30 pm

MIASA Seminar Room

Abstract:

In this talk, I scrutinize how people originating from the Southern part of Sudan are labeled and categorized in the processes following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005) and the secession of South Sudan (2011). Besides being classified as “displaced” in Khartoum, a place many of them had been living all their lives and had called their home, my interlocutors were labeled as “returnees” moving from Khartoum to the South albeit they had never lived in South Sudan before. I argue that the classification affected my interlocutors in multiple ways. They have been constantly forced to adapt to new labels and respond to it by adapting, negotiating, resisting or simply ignoring them. Based on a multisided ethnography over a long period in Sudan and South Sudan, I will reflect on the life of a family and show how they negotiate the categorization of the migration regime and try to create meaningful lives beyond categories. 

Ulrike Schultz is a professor of development sociology at Friedensau Adventist University. She is the Head of the Master Program Development Studies. Before coming to Friedensau, she taught in Berlin, Bochum, and Khartoum. Her mainresearch fields are migration, refugee & mobility studies, and gender & intersectionality. In current research projects, shelooks at belonging and citizenship in the context of migration in the two Sudans and on educational trajectories in Northern Kenya. Her regional focus lies in North East Africa and East Africa.

This lecture is open to the public. For virtual participation via Zoom, please use the following link:

https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/66991368845?pwd=eAcK6l0OTglQgu4eLQCuc00CLacEh6.1

Meeting-ID: 669 9136 8845
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