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Marriage Without BordersDinah Hannaford

Marriage Without Borders

Dinah Hannaford
2017180 pages
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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. 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. 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…

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3 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2017
    University of Pennsylvania Press · 180 pages · 9780812249347
  • Other · English · 2020
    University of Pennsylvania Press · 180 pages · 9780812224740
  • Other · English · 2017
    University of Pennsylvania Press · 180 pages · 9780812294194
Africa, social conditionsWomen's studiesAnthropologyIntercountry marriageHistoryTransnationalismEmigration and immigrationSenegalese