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During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous
political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids
have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in
post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a
new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state's withdrawal from
providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One
response to these developments has been increased migration, which
poses further challenges to kinship-based social support systems.
This innovative volume focuses on the ambiguous role of religious
networks in social security and traces the interrelatedness of
religious networks and state and family support systems.
Particularly timely, it describes these challenges as well as
social security arrangements in the context of globalization and
migration. The wide range of case studies from various parts of the
world that examine various religious groups offers an important
comparative contribution to the understanding of religious networks
as providers of social security.
Globalisation and transnational migration have altered people's
understanding of as well as their relationship to their "dwelling
places" and "places of origin". Taking the empirical case of the
South Lebanese Shi'ite village of Zrariye and its migrant
population in Abidjan/Côte d'Ivoire, the book shows how "place",
which has become a vital political, economic and social resource,
continues to be of tremendous significance in the age of mobility
and change. "Lebanese in Motion" explores how villagers "at home"
and "abroad" are involved in producing a "translocal
village-in-the-making", which emanates as a social field through
their practices and narratives. Travel and the means of
communication make it possible to keep in constant touch and thus
renegotiate kinship, generational and gender relationships beyond
local, regional and nation-state boundaries. Particularly
interested in understanding how female identities are redefined,
the study delineates how gender and place are mutually constituted
in the translocal village under study.
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