A01=Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
africa
Author_Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
belonging
Berlin
Cameroon
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celebration
civic engagement
diaspora
discrimination
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ethnicity
europe
exile
family
festivities
folklore
Germany
heritage
history
immigration
international migration
maternity
migrant
motherhood
national identity
nonfiction
parenting
party
politics
prejudice
psychology
racism
raising children
refugee
reproduction
roots
social networks
sociology
starting over
trauma
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780226389745
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2016
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
