Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity Between Kenya and the United Kingdom

by Leslie Fesenmyer

The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer's work provides a rich, historically nuanced study of the kinship dilemmas that underlie transnational migration and explores the dynamic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009335073
• ISBN13: 9781009335072
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"