Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Name: Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality
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ISBN: 9780226072388

ISBN-10: 022607238X

ISBN-13: 9780226072388

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cati Coe

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Today’s unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In The Scattered Family, Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad. Challenging oversimplified concepts of globalization as a wholly unchecked force, she details the diverse and creative ways Ghanaian families have adapted long-standing familial practices to a contemporary, global setting.Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Coe uncovers a rich and dynamic set of familial concepts, habits, relationships, and expectations—what she calls repertoires—that have developed over…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Cati Coe is assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University.