Hannah Niedenführ – författare

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities.The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities.

The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities. The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

In Burkina Faso stellt Migration den gesellschaftlichen Normalfall dar. Auch Kinder migrieren im Rahmen ihrer Anvertrauung, einer sozialen Praxis, bei der Kinder bei anderen als ihren leiblichen Eltern aufwachsen. In diesem Buch wird untersucht, warum und auf welche Weise die Anvertrauung praktiziert wird. Vergleichend werden dabei zwei Formen der Anvertrauung gegenübergestellt: die traditionelle Anvertrauung an Verwandte und Bekannte und die religiöse Anvertrauung an Koranlehrer. Unter Beachtung einer insgesamt hohen gesellschaftlichen Vulnerabilität werden die Funktionen der beiden Formen der Anvertrauung für die beteiligten Personen und die Gesellschaft als Ganzes untersucht. Ebenso wird analysiert, welche institutionellen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteure im Rahmen der Prozesse des gesellschaftlichen Aushandelns der Anvertrauung in welcher Weise zur Beibehaltung, Änderung oder Bekämpfung dieser sozialen Praxis beitragen und welche Positionierungen, Handlungen und Prozesse ineinandergreifen, die sich bedingen, parallel oder auch konträr zueinander verlaufen.