Cati Coe, The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 256 pp.The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants and Global Inequality probes nature of family ties linking Ghanaian labor migrants in United States with their children and other kin in Africa. Anthropologist Cati Coe analyzes and contextualizes migrant narratives in relation to most recent literature on transnationalism, capitalism and migration, family studies, and anthropology of children. This work also has much to contribute to growing body of scholarship on anthropology of emotion or affect.In this way, Coe's work bridges what is sometimes conceptualized, albeit unhelpfully, as a dichotomy between economic and cultural globalization. Economic processes of contributed to political and economic instability in Ghana in 1970s and subsequent implementation of structural adjustment programs by International Monetary Fund and World Bank in 1980s. These programs, Coe argues, weakened Ghanaian state's ability to provide needed services, enhanced export-oriented segments of economy, [...] and resulted in a decline in living standards for middle-class professionals and civil servants (11) precipitating emigration, first regionally, but then globally. It is, however, cultural processes of that contribute to ways Ghanaian families remain linked over time and space. In particular, it is transmission of ideas, meanings, and values that both perpetuate and sustain family as it adapts to strikingly different settings. Coe's work, in this way, seems to align with scholars such as Gillian Hart who attempt to rethink globalization in terms of multiple, divergent, but interconnected trajectories of socio-spatial change (2002:13). Coe, then, provides more empirical evidence that allows us to see in a way that transcends impact model.Adding welcome case study material, Coe begins to address Ferguson's (2006:25) observation that enormous literature on has little to say about Africa. She builds on understandings put forward by other anthropologists of that mobility of capital is not matched by mobility of people (Lewellen 2002). She unpacks limits on mobility of people through careful analysis of US immigration law. She adds texture to discussions of African migrants that have focused primarily on either elites or Convention refugees. While Coe does not exclude elites from her sample, bulk of her contribution seems to revolve around increased attention to migration of members of African middle class-tracing what their social positioning means for their reception in US, their extraction from Ghanaian society, and, subsequently, their periodic reinsertion into Ghanaian society. While not necessarily a topic that Coe tackles, her work has significance for scholars interested in concept of return migration, which revolves around a notion of departure and return, rather than cycle of migration/remigration that Coe depicts.At heart of this study is a concept that Coe refers to as a migrant's repertoire, or their existing beliefs, practices, and resources of family life (5) that they then adapt to experience of migration. She suggests that, the repertoire of migrants and their families affect how they separate and how they feel about their (5). In particular, The Scattered Family examines how Ghanaian immigrants to US and their families adapt their repertoires to parent-child separation caused by a parent's international migration. For Coe, repertoire is related to, but distinct from, Bourdieu's habitus. She writes that, in particular,repertoire signals a multiplicity of cultural resources and frameworks, a body or collection of practices, knowledge, and beliefs that allows people to imagine what is possible, expect certain things, and value certain goals rather than primacy of frameworks laid down through experiences in family of origin. …