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Mothers on the Move : reproducing belonging between Africa and Europe

Title
Mothers on the Move : reproducing belonging between Africa and Europe / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.
Author
Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958-
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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Description
xvi, 243 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explore how migrant mothers through the careful and at times difficult management of relationships juggle belonging in multiple places at once: their new country, their old country, and the diasporic community that bridges them. Feldman-Savelsberg introduces readers to several Cameroonian mothers, each with her own unique history, concerns, and voice. Through scenes of their lives at a hometown association's year-end party, a celebration for a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners' Office, and many others as well as the stories they tell one another, Feldman-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking about migrants' lives and the networks and repertoires that they draw on to find stability and, ultimately, belonging. Placing women's individual voices within international social contexts, this book unveils new, intimate links between the geographical and the generational as they intersect in the dreams, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve of strong women holding families together across continents.
Subject
  • Cameroonians > Germany > Berlin
  • Cameroonians > Germany > Berlin > Ethnic identity
  • Immigrant families > Germany > Berlin > Psychological aspects
  • Immigrant families > Germany > Berlin > Social conditions
  • Belonging (Social psychology) > Cameroon
  • Motherhood > Psychological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Cameroonian predicaments -- Starting Cameroonian families in Berlin -- Raising Cameroonian families in Berlin -- Civic engagement -- In the shadow of the state.
Call Number
Sc E 16-131
ISBN
  • 9780226389745 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 022638974X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226389882 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 022638988X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2016005825
OCLC
938708315
Author
Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958- author.
Title
Mothers on the Move : reproducing belonging between Africa and Europe / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.
Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-131
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