Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe
Autor Pamela Feldman-Savelsbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2016
The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explore how migrant mothers—through the careful and at times difficult management of relationships—juggle belonging in multiple places at once: their new country, their old country, and the diasporic community that bridges them.
Feldman-Savelsberg introduces readers to several Cameroonian mothers, each with her own unique history, concerns, and voice. Through scenes of their lives—at a hometown association’s year-end party, a celebration for a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners’ Office, and many others—as well as the stories they tell one another, Feldman-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking about migrants’ lives and the networks and repertoires that they draw on to find stability and, ultimately, belonging. Placing women’s individual voices within international social contexts, this book unveils new, intimate links between the geographical and the generational as they intersect in the dreams, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve of strong women holding families together across continents.
Feldman-Savelsberg introduces readers to several Cameroonian mothers, each with her own unique history, concerns, and voice. Through scenes of their lives—at a hometown association’s year-end party, a celebration for a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners’ Office, and many others—as well as the stories they tell one another, Feldman-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking about migrants’ lives and the networks and repertoires that they draw on to find stability and, ultimately, belonging. Placing women’s individual voices within international social contexts, this book unveils new, intimate links between the geographical and the generational as they intersect in the dreams, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve of strong women holding families together across continents.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226389882
ISBN-10: 022638988X
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 15 halftones, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 022638988X
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 15 halftones, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg is the Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton College. She is the author of Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs and editor of Reproduction, Collective Memory, and Generation in Africa.
Cuprins
Preface and Acknowledgements
Cast of Characters
Cast of Characters
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Cameroonian Predicaments
Chapter Three: Starting Cameroonian Families in Berlin
Chapter Four: Raising Cameroonian Families in Berlin
Chapter Five: Civic Engagement
Chapter Six: In the Shadow of the State
Notes
References Cited
Index
References Cited
Index
Recenzii
"Mothers on the Move is a detailed study of Cameroonian migrant mothers in Berlin and their sense of belonging and notbelonging through birthing and childcare practices. The most innovative...aspect of the book is its link between historical reproductive insecurity in Cameroon and women’s current experiences in Berlin."
"Overall, this is a beautiful contribution to scholarship on migration and belonging"
"Mothers on the Move manages to bring together migration and reproduction in fresh ways through a rich ethnographic case, situated in a broad temporal and spatial frame."