TY  - GEN
T1  - Marriage without borders : transnational spouses in neoliberal Senegal
T2  - Contemporary Ethnography
A1  - Hannaford, Dinah
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn999367048
AB  - In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve 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.
CN  - HQ1032 .H36 2017
SN  - 9780812294194
SN  - 081229419X
SN  - 0812249348
SN  - 9780812249347
KW  - Intercountry marriage : Senegal : History : 21st century.
KW  - Transnationalism : History : 21st century.
KW  - Senegalese : Marriage customs and rights : History : 21st century.
KW  - Senegalese : Europe : History : 21st century.
KW  - Senegal : Emigration and immigration : History : 21st century.
KW  - Mariage interethnique : Sénégal : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - Transnationalisme : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - Sénégalais : Europe : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Intercountry marriage
KW  - Senegalese
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - Europe
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Anthropology.
KW  - Gender studies: women & girls.
KW  - Sociology: family & relationships.
KW  - Society.
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - History
ER  -