An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families negotiate 'economic moralities,' or expectations about material obligations. Analyzing everyday exchanges in middle-class Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar, this book traces links between the language that mediates acts of food sharing and gift giving, and moral discourses that shape redistribution beyond the household. Foregrounding children's role in transnational relations, anthropologist Chelsie Yount urges us to rethink questions of agency in economic practice. How do children grapple with the multiple, and sometimes contradictory, moral expectations they encounter at home and abroad? What can their practical struggles tell us about the ways the decline of the middle class in Europe impacts kinship connections in the African diaspora? The difficulties migrant
