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- The International African Library
- Relative Distance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Characters
- Introduction
- 1 Securing the Future: Family, Livelihoods, and Mobility
- 2 Aspirations, Obligations, and Imagination in Family Migration
- 3 The Making of ‘Migrants’
- 4 Kinship Dilemmas: Negotiating Relatedness across Space
- 5 Weddings as Transnational Household Rituals: Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships
- 6 Change and Continuity: The Social Reproduction of Families between Kenya and the United Kingdom
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Series page
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2023
- Relative Distance
- The International African Library
- Relative Distance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Characters
- Introduction
- 1 Securing the Future: Family, Livelihoods, and Mobility
- 2 Aspirations, Obligations, and Imagination in Family Migration
- 3 The Making of ‘Migrants’
- 4 Kinship Dilemmas: Negotiating Relatedness across Space
- 5 Weddings as Transnational Household Rituals: Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships
- 6 Change and Continuity: The Social Reproduction of Families between Kenya and the United Kingdom
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Series page
Summary
In the Conclusion, I reflect on the importance of adopting a generational, life-stage, and gendered lens to the study of transnational families. Close consideration of the interplay between physical, social, and phenomenological distance in transnational families demonstrates that the experience of distance is affectively mediated and inevitably relative, just as the meaning of relatedness is negotiated over time and across space. Since economic and social processes are always made sense of from particular social locations, the Conclusion underscores how attention to familial transformations is productive for understanding wider social change.
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- Relative DistanceKinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom, pp. 186 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023