This article investigates the pragmatic, everyday journeys of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda’s Palabek Refugee Settlement through a mobilities-focused analytical lens. Despite the repatriation of vast numbers of refugees, little is known about the diversity of refugees’ later movements. Recognition of this complexity is important. Although many of our South Sudanese interlocutors take part in multiple interconnected movements both within and across borders, these are frequently irregular and unpredictable. We define these refugees’ ‘pragmatic mobilities’ as ‘the experience and practice of multiple, distinct yet interconnected mobilities, despite trying times and unknowable circumstances’, thereby attending to the fractured (dis)junctures between these journeys as well as to their full temporal and geographical scope. By setting the practice and experience of South Sudanese refugees’ ongoing and everyday mobilities within wider personal and regional historical perspectives, we argue that the diversities within these refugees’ ‘pragmatic mobility’ practices demonstrate powerful manifestations of agency. We consequently understand these movements to be essential elements within everyday—yet crucial—practices to gain and maintain personal and collective control in otherwise uncertain contexts.

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务实的流动性和不确定的生活：代理和乌干达南部苏丹难民的日常流动

本文通过以行动为重点的分析镜头，调查了南苏丹难民在乌干达北部帕拉别克难民定居点的务实日常旅行。尽管遣返了大批难民，但对难民后来的行动的多样性知之甚少。认识到这种复杂性很重要。尽管我们许多南苏丹对话者参加了境内外和跨境的多个相互关联的运动，但这些运动常常是不规则和不可预测的。我们将这些难民的“务实动员”定义为“尽管经历了艰难的时期和未知的环境，但经历了多种，截然不同却又相互联系的动员的经历和实践”，从而关注了这些旅程之间的破裂（分离）关头以及他们的整个时光。和地理范围。通过在更广泛的个人和区域历史视角下设定南苏丹难民的日常活动和实践，我们认为这些难民的“实用流动性”实践中的多样性体现了代理的有力表现。因此，我们将这些运动理解为每天（即使是至关重要的）实践中必不可少的要素，这些实践在其他不确定的情况下获得并保持个人和集体控制权。