Relative Distance : Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom Hardback
by Leslie (University of Birmingham) Fesenmyer
Part of the The International African Library series
Hardback
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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 ?eldwork 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2023
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- ISBN:9781009335072
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009335072
