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Relative distance : kinship, migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom / Leslie Fesenmyer, University of Birmingham.

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"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 re...

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Main Author: Fesenmyer, Leslie E. (Leslie Elyse) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:International African library ; 71.
Subjects:
Families > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Immigrant families > Kenya.
Immigrant families > Great Britain.
Transnationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Familles > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Familles immigrantes > Kenya.
Familles immigrantes > Grande-Bretagne.
Transnationalisme > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Families.
Immigrant families.
Transnationalism.
Great Britain.
Kenya.
1900-1999
History.
Table of 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.

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