Based upon ethnographic research with Cameroonian migrant mothers in Berlin, and building upon long-term research in rural and urban Cameroon, this presentation explores how migrants’ encounters with the law in the course of founding families contribute to newly emerging legal consciousness and practices of belonging. It explores how African migrants’ circulating stories—about getting married, bearing children, and raising them—crystallize into collectively held ideas about when and when not to avoid the European legal Leviathan.
Prof. Dr. Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg ist Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology bei Carleton College,
USA, und von 2013-2014 Fellow am Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” in Bonn.
Wann: Dienstag, 17.6.2014, 19.00 Uhr
Wo: Hörsaal 34.K1, Attemsgasse 25/EG