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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

Leslie Fesenmyer
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Much migration research takes as its point of departure the migrant and the act of migration. In contrast, the Introduction foregrounds migrants and their families, treating migration projects like those at the heart of the book as domains of interaction between those who move and those who stay. It introduces and situates key concepts and topics, including ‘moral economies of transnational kinship’, imagination and distance, Christianity, and generation. The Introduction also discusses migrants’ arrival in the United Kingdom and the immigration context at the time, as well as the methodology used in conducting multi-sited fieldwork. It concludes with an outline of the book’s six chapters, which consider moral economies of transnational kinship from multiple perspectives and angles, from multiple social and geographic locations.

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Relative Distance
Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
, pp. 1 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Introduction
  • Leslie Fesenmyer, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Relative Distance
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009335096.001
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  • Introduction
  • Leslie Fesenmyer, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Relative Distance
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009335096.001
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  • Introduction
  • Leslie Fesenmyer, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Relative Distance
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009335096.001
Available formats
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