Format:
viii, 231 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781009335072
,
1009335073
,
9781009335089
,
1009335081
Series Statement:
The international African library
Content:
"Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas - moral, material, and affective - facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states"--
Note:
Securing the future: family, livelihoods, and mobility -- Aspirations, obligations, and imagination in family migration -- The making of 'migrants' -- Kinship dilemmas: negotiating relatedness across space -- Weddings as transnational household rituals: marriage and other intimate relations -- Change and continuity: the social reproduction of families between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Additional Edition:
Online version Fesenmyer, Leslie E. (Leslie Elyse) Relative distance Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023] ISBN 9781009335096
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Theology
,
Sociology
