ISBN:
9781009335072
,
1009335073
,
9781009335089
,
1009335081
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 231 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
The international African library
Parallel Title:
Online version Fesenmyer, Leslie E. (Leslie Elyse) Relative distance
Keywords:
Families / Kenya / History / 20th century
;
Immigrant families / Kenya
;
Immigrant families / Great Britain
;
Transnationalism
;
Families
;
Immigrant families
;
Transnationalism
;
Great Britain
;
Kenya
;
1900-1999
;
History
;
History
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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