Religion and Transnational Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Akan London

ISBN-13: 9781032422084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str.

Mattia Fumanti

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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