Marriage Without Borders : : Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal / / Dinah Hannaford.

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, conque...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.)
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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