Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity Between Kenya and the United Kingdom - Brossura

Fesenmyer, Leslie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1009335081 ISBN 13: 9781009335089

Casa editrice: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2025

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1009335081
• ISBN 13: 9781009335089
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Contatto del produttore: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italia