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Affective Circuits
African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
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Affective Circuits
African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
About this book
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, the book explores the many ways migrants sustain and rework family ties and intimate relationships at home and abroad. It demonstrates how their quotidian efforts—on such a mass scale—contribute to a broader process of social regeneration.
The contributors point to the intersecting streams of goods, people, ideas, and money as they circulate between African migrants and their kin who remain back home. They also show the complex ways that emotions become entangled in these exchanges. Examining how these circuits operate in domains of social life ranging from child fosterage to binational marriages, from coming-of-age to healing and religious rituals, the book also registers the tremendous impact of state officials, laws, and policies on migrant experience. Together these essays paint an especially vivid portrait of new forms of kinship at a time of both intense mobility and ever-tightening borders.
The contributors point to the intersecting streams of goods, people, ideas, and money as they circulate between African migrants and their kin who remain back home. They also show the complex ways that emotions become entangled in these exchanges. Examining how these circuits operate in domains of social life ranging from child fosterage to binational marriages, from coming-of-age to healing and religious rituals, the book also registers the tremendous impact of state officials, laws, and policies on migrant experience. Together these essays paint an especially vivid portrait of new forms of kinship at a time of both intense mobility and ever-tightening borders.
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Yes, you can access Affective Circuits by Jennifer Cole, Christian Groes, Jennifer Cole,Christian Groes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & African History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2016Print ISBN
9780226405155, 9780226405018eBook ISBN
9780226405292Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Affective Circuits and Social Regeneration in African Migration
- 1 Translations in Kinscripts: Child Circulation among Ghanaians Abroad
- 2 Forging Belonging through Children in the Berlin-Cameroonian Diaspora
- 3 Photography and Technologies of Care: Migrants in Britain and Their Children in the Gambia
- 4 Transnational Health-Care Circuits: Managing Therapy among Immigrants in France and Kinship Networks in West Africa
- 5 “Assistance but Not Support”: Pentecostalism and the Reconfiguring of Relatedness between Kenya and the United Kingdom
- 6 The Paradox of Parallel Lives: Immigration Policy and Transnational Polygyny between Senegal and France
- 7 Men Come and Go, Mothers Stay: Personhood and Resisting Marriage among Mozambican Women Migrating to Europe
- 8 Giving Life: Regulating Affective Circuits among Malagasy Marriage Migrants in France
- 9 Life’s Trampoline: On Nullification and Cocaine Migration in Bissau
- 10 From Little Brother to Big Somebody: Coming of Age at the Gare du Nord
- 11 Circuitously Parisian: Sapeur Parakinship and the Affective Circuitry of Congolese Style
- References
- Contributors
- Index