RELATIVE DISTANCE ; KINSHIP MIGRATION AND CHRISTIANITY BETWEEN KENYA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM
FESENMYER,LESLI
RELATIVE DISTANCE ; KINSHIP MIGRATION AND CHRISTIANITY BETWEEN KENYA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM LESLIE FESENMYER, University of Oxford. - 1 online resource - The international African library .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
9781009335096
2022055195
Families--History--Kenya--20th century.
Immigrant families--Kenya.
Immigrant families--Great Britain.
Transnationalism.
HQ692.5
306.809 676 2 FES
RELATIVE DISTANCE ; KINSHIP MIGRATION AND CHRISTIANITY BETWEEN KENYA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM LESLIE FESENMYER, University of Oxford. - 1 online resource - The international African library .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
9781009335096
2022055195
Families--History--Kenya--20th century.
Immigrant families--Kenya.
Immigrant families--Great Britain.
Transnationalism.
HQ692.5
306.809 676 2 FES