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Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes. Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation.

Immigrants --- Masculinity --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Psychology. --- African Gender Studies. --- African Masculinity. --- African Migration. --- African Society. --- Gender Roles in Africa. --- Gender Roles in East Africa. --- Male Migrants in Nairobi. --- Migrants in East Africa.

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The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, the book explores the many ways migrants sustain and rework family ties and intimate relationships at home and abroad. It demonstrates how their quotidian efforts on such a mass scale contribute to a broader process of social regeneration. The contributors point to the intersecting streams of goods, people, ideas, and money as they circulate between African migrants and their kin who remain back home. They also show the complex ways that emotions become entangled in these exchanges. Examining how these circuits operate in domains of social life ranging from child fosterage to binational marriages, from coming-of-age to healing and religious rituals, the book also registers the tremendous impact of state officials, laws, and policies on migrant experience. Together these essays paint an especially vivid portrait of new forms of kinship at a time of both intense mobility and ever-tightening borders.

Africans --- Ethnology --- Kinship --- Social networks --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Migration. Refugees --- Europe --- Africains --- Afrikaner. --- Einwanderung. --- Migration. --- Soziale Situation. --- Soziales Netzwerk. --- Réseaux sociaux --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Afrika. --- Europa. --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- African migration. --- Europe. --- affective circuits. --- exchange. --- gender. --- intimacy. --- marriage. --- motherhood. --- personhood. --- social reproduction.

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In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging. In particular, it examines how the recognitions and reciprocities entailed by care work affect the political belonging of new African migrants in the United States.

Caregivers. --- Home Care Services. --- Foreign workers, African --- Caregivers --- Home care services --- United States. --- United States. --- Affordable Care Act. --- African American history. --- African migration. --- Washington DC. --- aging. --- care labor. --- cultural capital. --- death. --- dignity. --- domestic service. --- exclusion. --- flexible workforce. --- foreclosure. --- good death. --- health insurance. --- home care. --- home death. --- home ownership. --- house-building. --- humiliation. --- inheritance. --- interdependence. --- kinship. --- labor market. --- mortgages. --- racialization. --- regulations. --- retirement. --- sick leave. --- social mobility. --- social networks. --- transnationalism.

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In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically, how Europe's increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target-the clandestine migrant. This vivid, rich work examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa to Europe, and shifts the focus from the "illegal immigrants" themselves to the vast industry built around their movements. This fascinating and accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in the politics of international migration and the changing texture of global culture.

Illegal aliens --- Immigrants clandestins --- Ceuta (Spain) --- Melilla (Spain) --- Mali --- Senegal --- Ceuta (Espagne) --- Melilla (Espagne) --- Sénégal --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration et immigration --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Aliens --- Aliens, Illegal --- Illegal immigrants --- Illegal immigration --- Undocumented aliens --- Alien detention centers --- Human smuggling --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social science --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Emigration & Immigration. --- Sénégal --- Undocumented immigrants --- R.M. (République du Mali) --- RM (République du Mali) --- République du Mali --- Mali ka Fasojamana --- مالي --- Малі --- Рэспубліка Малі --- Rėspublika Mali --- Мали --- Република Мали --- Republika Mali --- Μάλι --- Δημοκρατία του Μάλι --- Dēmokratia tou Mali --- מאלי --- רפובליקת מאלי --- Republiḳat Mali --- 말리 --- Malli --- 말리 공화국 --- Malli Konghwaguk --- マリ共和国 --- Mari Kyōwakoku --- Республика Мали --- Республіка Малі --- Cộng hòa Mali --- 马里共和国 --- Mali Gongheguo --- マリ --- Mari --- Sudanese Republic --- Melilla, Morocco --- Rusadir (Spain) --- Rusaddir (Spain) --- M'lila (Spain) --- Millela (Spain) --- Malīlīyah (Spain) --- Malīlyah (Spain) --- Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla (Spain) --- Ceuta --- Sabtah (Spain) --- Cepta (Spain) --- Ceupta (Spain) --- Cevta (Spain) --- Sebta (Spain) --- Sinighāl --- Territoire du Sénégal --- Gouvernement du Sénégal --- Republic of Senegal --- République du Sénégal --- Gouvernement de la République du Sénégal --- Saaxle Senegaal --- Réewum Senegaal --- Republiek van Senegal --- سنغال --- Republica de Senegal --- Rèpublica du Sènègal --- Seneqal --- Seneqal Respublikası --- Сенегал --- Senehal --- Рэспубліка Сенегал --- Rėspublika Senehal --- Republik Senegal --- Republika Senegal --- República del Senegal --- Senegalská republika --- Gweriniaeth Sénégal --- Senegali Vabariik --- Σενεγαλη --- Senegalē --- Δημοκρατια της Σενεγαλης --- Dēmokratia tēs Senegalēs --- セネガル --- Senegaru --- French Sudan --- Mali Federation --- Africa, French-speaking West --- Emigration and immigration. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Non-citizens --- Noncitizens --- Resident aliens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Persons --- Ciudad de Ceuta (Spain) --- Cueta (Spain) --- Septa (Spain) --- Septem Fratres (Spain) --- Russadir (Spain) --- Mřič (Spain) --- مليلية (Spain) --- Ciudad de Melilla (Spain) --- Children of illegal aliens --- Illegal alien children --- Irregular migration --- Unauthorized immigration --- Undocumented immigration --- Women illegal aliens --- Noncitizen detention centers --- Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta (Spain) --- africa to europe. --- african migration. --- anthropology. --- border crossings. --- border regime. --- borderlands. --- california series in public anthropology. --- civic. --- clandestine migration trail. --- confrontations. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural studies. --- emigration and immigration studies. --- ethnographic research. --- europe. --- global culture. --- global disaster. --- history. --- illegal immigrants. --- international drama. --- international migration. --- journalism. --- mali. --- migrants. --- migration. --- national security. --- politics. --- powerful border. --- senegal. --- subterranean migration. --- Migration. Refugees --- International private law --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Europe --- Africa