Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom

di Leslie Fesenmyer (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2023

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.

• Autore: Leslie Fesenmyer
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: The International African Library
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 232 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 510 gr.
• EAN: 9781009335072

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