The work now looks at the meaning migrants attribute to items, goods, and services with which they are emotionally connected. It discusses how some of these items, previously relevant in their home countries, are preserved, transported, shared, and romanticised as materials for remembrance. These items vary in flexibility and cost, while attachments to them are also subjective, depending on individual preferences. Even though the regulation of destination countries shapes the form, content, and substance of preservation, migrants often strive to either reduce the depth of association with these materials, forget them entirely, or recreate them to sustain their memories, given their nature as prized materials while in their home country.

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Traces in the Margins: Objects, Rituals, and the Intimate Archives of African Migration

  • Abiodun Adeniyi

摘要

The work now looks at the meaning migrants attribute to items, goods, and services with which they are emotionally connected. It discusses how some of these items, previously relevant in their home countries, are preserved, transported, shared, and romanticised as materials for remembrance. These items vary in flexibility and cost, while attachments to them are also subjective, depending on individual preferences. Even though the regulation of destination countries shapes the form, content, and substance of preservation, migrants often strive to either reduce the depth of association with these materials, forget them entirely, or recreate them to sustain their memories, given their nature as prized materials while in their home country.