Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity Between Kenya and the United Kingdom Fesenmyer Leslie
Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity Between Kenya and the United Kingdom Fesenmyer Leslie The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what…
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Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity Between Kenya and the United Kingdom Fesenmyer Leslie
The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. Based on extensive fieldwork 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. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history.
Relative Distance shows how quotidian interactions, exchanges, and practices transform kinship on a local and global scale. 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. Through the prism of intergenerational care, Fesenmyer reveals that
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