Mattia Fumanti

Religion and Transnational Citizenship in the African Diaspora

Akan London

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on Akan speaking Ghanaians in London and explores in detail the experience of African migrants living in Britain. Of interest to researchers and scholars of anthropology, religion, sociology, postcolonial studies, and African studies, and additionally policy makers interested in diaspora and migration studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780367902919
• ISBN-10: 0367902915
• Artikelnr.: 65915133

Autorenporträt

Mattia Fumanti is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The New African Diaspora: Ethnicity, Religion, and
Citizenship in the Gateway City 1. Haringey: Associational Life and Black
Leadership in a North London Borough 2. Migrant Spaces and Transnational
Networks Between London and Ghana 3. "Virtuous Citizenship": Ethnicity and
Encapsulation among Akan-Speaking Ghanaian Methodists in London 4. Agape
Love: Gender, Class and Transnational Subjectivities in a Methodist Women's
Fellowship 5. 'Showing-off Aesthetics': Looking Good, Making Relations and
'Being in the World' in the London Akan Diaspora 6. Intimacy, Citizenship
and Transnational Family Lives between London and Ghana Conclusion:
Everyday Practices of Citizenship and the Struggle for Recognition and
Distinction in Akan London