RELATIVE DISTANCE ; KINSHIP MIGRATION AND CHRISTIANITY BETWEEN KENYA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM
LESLIE FESENMYER, University of Oxford.
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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"--