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

By:

FESENMYER,LESLI (Leslie Elyse) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The international African libraryPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781009335096

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Relative distanceDDC classification:

306.809 676 2 FES

LOC classification:

HQ692.5

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Dodoma	306.809 676 2 FES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		LIB*14159

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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