Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
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Abstract
This book examines the simultaneously material, social and emotional exchanges involved when African migrants venture to Europe in search of a better life. As we argue, these exchange are part of a broader quest for social regeneration that involve negotiations of family ties and intimate relationships at home and abroad as well as complicated encounters with state officials and laws hindering or facilitating their journeys. In this migratory process exchange of everything from money, goods and advice to sentiments, phone calls and assurances of belonging are part of transnational circuits that enable, block or control mobility through social networks. We call the circuits that emerge from the sending, withholding and receiving of goods, ideas, bodies and emotions affective circuits. We focus especially on how affective circuits operate in the context of contemporary African migration to Europe, following in the footsteps of migrants and their families, husbands, wives, friends, peers and lovers across African countries like Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Congo, Mauritania, Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique and European countries like France, Italy, Portugal, UK, Germany and Denmark. Through fieldwork in both Africa and Europe the authors analyze how exchanges work, how they are socially, culturally, morally and historically embedded, and how they regenerate and reshape kin and other intimate formations in our times of worldwide migrations.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Affective Circuits and Social Regeneration in African Migration
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One
Translations in Kinscripts: Child Circulation among Ghanaians Abroad
Cati Coe
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Two
Forging Belonging through Children in the Berlin-Cameroonian Diaspora
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
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Photography and Technologies of Care: Migrants in Britain and Their Children in the Gambia
Pamela Kea
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Transnational Health-Care Circuits: Managing Therapy among Immigrants in France and Kinship Networks in West Africa
Carolyn Sargent andStéphanie Larchanché
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“Assistance but Not Support”: Pentecostalism and the Reconfiguring of Relatedness between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Leslie Fesenmyer
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The Paradox of Parallel Lives: Immigration Policy and Transnational Polygyny between Senegal and France
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
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Men Come and Go, Mothers Stay: Personhood and Resisting Marriage among Mozambican Women Migrating to Europe
Christian Groes
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Giving Life: Regulating Affective Circuits among Malagasy Marriage Migrants in France
Jennifer Cole
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Life’s Trampoline: On Nullification and Cocaine Migration in Bissau
Henrik Vigh
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From Little Brother to Big Somebody: Coming of Age at the Gare du Nord
Julie Kleinman
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Circuitously Parisian: Sapeur Parakinship and the Affective Circuitry of Congolese Style
Sasha Newell
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End Matter
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