Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese casesPosted in Africa, Anthropology, Europe, Family/Parenting, Forthcoming Media, United Kingdom on 2012-01-16 20:49Z by Steven |
Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases
Oxford University
The Oxford Diasporas Programme
2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31
Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and led by the International Migration Institute.
The research consists of 11 projects focusing on the impact of diasporas.
The programme is funded by the Leverhulme Trust from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015.
One of the effects of the global intensification of mobility is the formation of multicultural and transnational families involving spouses with different citizenships, as well as linguistic, religious and cultural backgrounds. In many parts of coastal West Africa, there is a long history of marriage with Europeans, dating back to the transatlantic slave trade. With a focus on bi-national families involving a Senegalese and a European partner as a case study, this project explores processes of family making in a diasporic context, from a gendered and cross-generational perspective. This project will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between the resilience of diasporas over time and their integration into ‘host societies’.
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