Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781009335072
UPC: 9781009335072
ISBN: 9781009335072
MPN: N/A
Format: Hardback, 232 pages
Author: Fesenmyer, Leslie (University of Birmingham)
Book Title: Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christi
Item Height: 1.4 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.5 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
