8. Aminata Camara: Negotiating privilege, kinship and care in diasporic travel
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Abstract
Aminata Camara: Negotiating privilege, kinship and care in diasporic travelAminata Camara, now in her thirties, feels rooted and at home in Germany.Nevertheless, especially since she has had children of her own, it has been a wish of hers to engage in a continuous relationship with West Africa and to transmit her African origins (Guinean on her side and Ghanaian on her husband's) to the next generation.They finally made a family trip to Accra in 2016, when the kids were five and one.Following that initial family visit, Aminata's idea now is to go every few years in order to tune in to life there and become accustomed to Ghana -to properly get to know the surroundings, everyday life, and potentially to build a house.More particularly, she wants to get to know her kin and for her family become members of the community.David Duval (2004) and Lauren Wagner (2008) both point out that a central motivation of 'return' visits or family visits can be to increase or normalise relations with transnational family.In his study on the meanings of return visits of Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Duval (2004) found that for many primomigrants 'full return' was not the desired ideal; it was more important to be able to potentially combine the best of both worlds and, if possible, to engage in a transnational life.That is even more the case for descendants of migrants for whom full return is not an option, as they were born and socialised in another country than that of their parents.In this chapter, I contend that the experience of diasporic travel is not only a way to reimagine what home and belonging mean but that it is also a ground for experiencing and facing one's own shifting social, cultural and economic positions.In the previous chapter, I examined Lafia's roots travel, which was also a family visit.Here, the main point of the visit is to meet family with whom Aminata has regular contact, although they have not yet seen each other in the flesh.Although Aminata lives with her family in Frankfurt, they are part of the family in Ghana, too, as Albert's mother lives there and regularly receives news from Ghana.Much like in Maya's case, diasporic relations are part of the family's everyday environment.Aminata travelled with her family to Ghana a few years ago.This was not roots travel in the first sense for Aminata, as her father is from Guinea.Rather, Ghana is the country of parental origin of both of Albert's parents.It was thus a trip to meet her
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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