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Title Labour of love: secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3200922
Date 2020
Author(s) Bakuri, A.; Spronk, R.; Dijk, R.A. van
Abstract This paper examines the productive role of secrecy in the nexus of transnational mobility, kinship, and intimate relations among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in the Netherlands. Whereas secrecy is typically understood as one person concealing knowledge from another, implying the latter's passivity, we argue that secrecy depends on mutually constitutive interactions. Secrecy is explored as the result of an interaction between those who obscure knowledge in creative ways and those who maintain a not-knowing. The paper analyzes how people negotiate moral expectations regarding sexuality, respect, and loyalty, while also manoeuvring to fulfil their personal aspirations. Especially in kinship relations, when people are bound to each other by moral and social obligations, the management of secrecy often makes people mutually dependent. Secrecy is revealed as skillfully choreographing relations by the ebb and flow of information where kinship, respect, or love and (not-) knowing reinforce another. - ASC ' Publicaties niet-programma gebonden
Subject(s) Ghana; Somali; Netherlands; secrecy; kinship; sexuality; diaspora; migration
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Identifier doi:10.1177/1466138120938808; lucris-id:337530579
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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