Forging Kinship Across Borders

Download or read book Forging Kinship Across Borders written by Caren Wendy Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the existing literature on transnational families tends to emphasize the resilience of cross-border relationships despite the strain of long-term separation. Rather than celebrate transnational family a largely stable and harmonious stretching of kinship relations across borders to form larger transnational communities, I stress the dynamic and often conflict-ridden processes involved in making, unmaking, and remaking of families across and within the borders of the nation-state.