Some considerations on the relationship between migration and Kinship

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on the connections between kinship and displacement. From a series of ethnographic examples, we deal with a flexible range of phenomena that are related to orders of kinship: all of them have something to do with displacement, even if it has occurred in a relatively distant past. We handle the everyday effects of movements in the present or the displacement of past generations. To account for this reflection, we adopt an idiosyncratic definition of kinship, which takes into account a recent discussion about its nature.