afrodiasporic identities in germany: life-stories of millennial women

Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed African European heritages. This ethnographic study traces the coming of age as person of African descent in Germany born in the 1980s with a focus on the city of Frankfurt. Silvia Wojczewski follows the paths of five women and shows how the practice of travelling is used as a way to connect to transnational families and to an Afrodiasporic heritage. Zooming in on five lives, she reveals the ways in which class, diaspora and kinship relations influence how the women understand themselves and their position in the world.

Silvia Wojczewski works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Public Health at Medizinische Universität Wien. The social and cultural anthropologist did her doctorate at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland and was a co-convenor of the European Anthropology network Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob). Her research focuses on global care networks, feminist intersectionality and medical anthropology.