Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany
Life-Stories of Millennial Women
Author(s)
Wojczewski, Silvia
Collection
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Language
EnglishAbstract
Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed African European heritages. This ethnographic study traces the coming of age as person of African descent in Germany born in the 1980s with a focus on the city of Frankfurt. Silvia Wojczewski follows the paths of five women and shows how the practice of travelling is used as a way to connect to transnational families and to an Afrodiasporic heritage. Zooming in on five lives, she reveals the ways in which class, diaspora and kinship relations influence how the women understand themselves and their position in the world.
Keywords
Germany; Intersectionality; Feminism; Ethnography; Tourism; Europe; Migration; Social Inequality; Education; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Geography; EthnologyDOI
10.14361/9783839473412ISBN
9783839473412, 9783837673418, 9783839473412Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2024Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
Kultur und soziale Praxis,Classification
Social and cultural anthropology
Migration, immigration and emigration
Human geography