Scattered Family - Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

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Summary

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 this book, the author offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad.

Product details

• Authors: Cati Coe, Coe Cati
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226072388
• ISBN: 978-0-226-07238-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith; mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ghana, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology: family & relationships, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples