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Abstract
Sudan since its independence in 1956 and South Sudan since its secession from Sudan in 2011 have been exposed to political and economic crises, civil wars, and local and regional outbreaks of violence that have forced people to leave their homes and move on to more secure places. Reflecting on the lives of two women, I scrutinize how people try to live normal lives despite the chronicity of crisis and a high degree of (forced) mobility. For them, mobility is an essential part of their livelihood and helps to create lives that are “meaningful, reasonable, and normal.” Furthermore, I reflect on the aspiration/ability model and ask how the wish to live normal lives leads to migration on the one side and forced (im)mobility on the other.
Contributor Notes
Ulrike Schultz is a Professor of Development Sociology at Friedensau Adventist University in Möckern, Germany. Before coming to Friedensau, she taught in Berlin, Bochum, and Khartoum. Her main research fields are migration, refugee, and mobility studies and gender, research, and intersectionality. In current research projects, she looks 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 Northeast Africa and East Africa. Email: ulrike.schultz@thh-friedensau.de