Relative Distance

Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Leslie Fesenmyer, Leslie (University of Birmingham) Fesenmyer

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The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive ﬁeldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer's work provides a rich, historically nuanced study of the kinship dilemmas that underlie transnational migration and explores the dynamic relationship between those who migrate and those who stay behind. Challenging a focus on changing modes of economic production, 'push-pull' factors, and globalisation as drivers of familial change, she analyses everyday trans-national family life. Relative Distance shows how quotidian interactions, exchanges, and practices transform kinship on a local and global scale. Through the prism of intergenerational care, Fesenmyer reveals that the question of who is responsible for whom is not only a familial matter but is at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-07-06
Mått157 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational African Library
Antal sidor232
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009335072

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik
Migration inom Samhalle och politik
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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.

'This book draws the reader into the lives of family members who, over decades, share an existence across geographical distance. Against the backdrop of wider social transformations, an extremely rich ethnography is explored with the support of a complex framework based on thorough insights into the essence of anthropology and migration studies. This is the anthropology of migration at its best.' Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg