The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

by Cati Coe

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In The Scattered Family, Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad. Challenging oversimplified concepts of globalization as a wholly unchecked force, she details the diverse and creative ways Ghanaian families have adapted long-standing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022607238X
• ISBN13: 9780226072388
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"