Donner, prendre et partager : Reproduire les 'moralités économiques' et les hiérarchies sociales dans le Sénégal transnational
[Thesis]
Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
Bledsoe, Caroline H.; Fischler, Claude
Northwestern University
2017
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Committee members: Launay, Robert; Moya, Ismael; Schwartzman, Helen B.; Shankar, Shalini; Sow, Papa
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-81836-9
Ph.D.
Anthropology
Northwestern University
2017
This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate "economic moralities," normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed as high-status, potential patrons. Heightened tensions surrounding Islam and immigration have reconfigured the stakes of belonging in the French Republic. Faced with economic decline and escalating French xenophobia, educated Dakarois provide a striking example of the ways migrants reinforce transnational hierarchies as they cling to (post)colonial privilege. I examine the ways transnational families manage diverse moral priorities in their struggle to maintain status in multiple communities, each of which places demands on their limited resources.
African Studies; Cultural anthropology; European Studies
Social sciences;Children;Food sharing;France;Migration;Senegal;Transnational families