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Marriage Without Borders: Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal by Dinah Hannaford. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp 180. $55 (hbk).
Marriage Without Borders offers a striking ethnographic portrait of marriage and kinship in an increasingly transnational Senegal. Weaving together data gathered in Senegal, Italy and France over the span of nearly a decade, Dinah Hannaford describes the emergence of migration as an economic and social imperative for young Senegalese, and she elaborates the implications this has for domestic life and intimate relations. Her rich account does not privilege the migrant as the central actor in this story, but instead gives equal weight to the aspirations and experiences of the jabaaru immigré (migrant's wife). What results is...