Relative Distance

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-33508-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: The International African Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fesenmyer, Leslie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Securing the future: family, livelihoods, and mobility; 2. Aspirations, obligations, and imagination in family migration; 3. The making of 'migrants'; 4. Kinship dilemmas: negotiating relatedness across space; 5. Weddings as transnational household rituals: marriage and other intimate relations; 6. Change and continuity: the social reproduction of families between Kenya and the United Kingdom; 7. Conclusion; References.

Über Autor(innen)

Fesenmyer, Leslie
Leslie Fesenmyer is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is currently leading a project on multi-religious encounters in urban Kenya funded by the European Research Council. Her research has been published in leading journals, including City & Society, Journal of Religion in Africa, and Social Anthropology.