Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
1) Translocal Care across Kosovo's Borders: Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In today's globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in...
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime...