- Description
- viii, 231 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 relations between individuals, societies, and states"--
- Series Statement
- The international African library ; 71
- Uniform Title
- International African library ; 71.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781009335072
- 1009335073
- 9781009335089
- 1009335081
- 9781009335096 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022055194
- OCLC
- YBP 2022055194
- Author
Fesenmyer, Leslie E. (Leslie Elyse), author.
- Title
Relative distance : kinship, migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom / Leslie Fesenmyer, University of Birmingham.
- Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
©2023
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
The international African library ; 71
International African library ; 71.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and index.
- Chronological Term
1900-1999
- Other Form:
Online version: Fesenmyer, Leslie E. (Leslie Elyse) Relative distance Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023] 9781009335096 (DLC) 2022055195