Imagining and living new worlds

The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2402709
AutoresJ Carsten (0000-0002-0286-9936, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen21
Número3
Páginas319-334
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1466138120940343
OpenAlexW3042481510
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas31

This essay considers kinship in the contexts of movement and migration. Delineating two quite different models of kinship ('doing' and 'being', the performative and the ascriptive), highlights how mobility and migration are particularly congruent with models of kinship that emphasise its performative qualities. I use movement and migration as a prism to show how kinship provides a uniquely dynamic reservoir of resources to creatively imagine and put into practice ideas and visions that enable moving to and living in new worlds - both geographically distant and near at hand. Rather than being aberrant or unusual, mobility can be seen to be among the capacities that kinship generates. But kinship also provides a repertoire that may promote settlement - and in the conclusion I suggest that both performative and ascriptive models might contribute to an understanding of kinship in the context of migration

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Fictive kinship · Geography · Kinship · Performative utterance · Sociology · Vision · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Migration, Refugees, and Integration