TY - BOOK
T1 - Relative Distance
T2 - Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
AU - Fesenmyer, Leslie
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - 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 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. 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.
AB - 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 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. 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.
KW - kinship
KW - Migration
KW - TRANSNATIONALISM
KW - Kenya
KW - United Kingdom
KW - Christianity
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/history/african-history/relative-distance-kinship-migration-and-christianity-between-kenya-and-united-kingdom?format=HB
U2 - 10.1017/9781009335096
DO - 10.1017/9781009335096
M3 - Book
SN - 9781009335072
T3 - The International African Library
BT - Relative Distance
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
ER -