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Affective Circuits - African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration (Paperback)
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Affective Circuits - African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration (Paperback)
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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.
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