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Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development
lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid
agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World
Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ
maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though
nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local
people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these
relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the
development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses
this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the
intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the
reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas
opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the
ostensibly "giving" industry of development can be an extractive
industry as well.
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development
lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid
agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World
Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ
maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though
nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local
people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these
relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the
development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses
this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the
intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the
reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas
opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the
ostensibly "giving" industry of development can be an extractive
industry as well.
In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues,
a jabaaru immigre ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an
opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naive
dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as
profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and
exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating
understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society
and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African
nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as
more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better
financial future. Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study
of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary
changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the
neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years
of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book
examines a particular social outcome of economic globalization:
transnational marriages between Senegalese migrant men living in
Europe and women at home in Senegal. These marriages have grown
exponentially among the Senegalese, as economic and social
possibilities within the country have steadily declined. More and
more, building successful social lives within Senegal seems to
require reaching outside the country, through either migration or
marriage to a migrant. New kinds of affective connection, and
disconnection, arise as Senegalese men and women reshape existing
conceptions of spousal responsibility, filial duty, Islamic piety,
and familial care. Dinah Hannaford connects these Senegalese
transnational marriages to the broader pattern of flexible kinship
arrangements emerging across the global south, arguing that
neoliberal globalization and its imperative for mobility extend
deep into the family and the heart and stretch relationships across
borders.
Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced
ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle
on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions
that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where
marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers
into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances
in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes
humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in
this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so
consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic
stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled,
does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across
diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America,
this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they
escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.
In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues,
a jabaaru immigre ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an
opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naive
dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as
profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and
exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating
understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society
and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African
nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as
more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better
financial future. Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study
of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary
changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the
neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years
of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book
examines a particular social outcome of economic globalization:
transnational marriages between Senegalese migrant men living in
Europe and women at home in Senegal. These marriages have grown
exponentially among the Senegalese, as economic and social
possibilities within the country have steadily declined. More and
more, building successful social lives within Senegal seems to
require reaching outside the country, through either migration or
marriage to a migrant. New kinds of affective connection, and
disconnection, arise as Senegalese men and women reshape existing
conceptions of spousal responsibility, filial duty, Islamic piety,
and familial care. Dinah Hannaford connects these Senegalese
transnational marriages to the broader pattern of flexible kinship
arrangements emerging across the global south, arguing that
neoliberal globalization and its imperative for mobility extend
deep into the family and the heart and stretch relationships across
borders.
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