Marriage without borders : transnational spouses in neoliberal Senegal /
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, conq...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2017]
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| Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6kvm |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Bitim Rëw
- Chapter 2. Precarity, Care Work, and Lives Suspended
- Chapter 3. Loneliness, Elegance, and Reproductive Labor
- Chapter 4. Mobility, Surveillance, and Infidelity
- Chapter 5. Sex, Love, and Modern Kinship
- Chapter 6. Reunions
- Conclusion: The Handmaiden of Neoliberalism
- Appendix: Scope and Methods of the Study
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.