Leslie Fesenmyer (University of Birmingham)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas â moral, material, and affective â 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.

Produktdetails

• The International African Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781009335072
• ISBN-10: 1009335073
• Artikelnr.: 67256294

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.