In today’s globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.
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Introduction: Kinship and Care across the Kosovo Borders
Chapter 1. Translocal Foundations of a Kosovo village
Chapter 2. Migrant Trajectories: Shifting Relations of Translocal Families
Chapter 3. Family Roles in Care across Translocal Households
Chapter 4. Home and Investment: Shifts in Perceptions and Their Material Manifestation
Chapter 5. Seeking a Future and Fortune: Partner Selection in a Translocal Space
Chapter 6. Weddings as Affirmation of the Translocal: Family and Kinship
Chapter 7. Realities of Cross-Border Marriages: Re-Arranging Family and Gender Relations
Conclusion: Translocal Family Care: Outlook and Conclusion
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Despre autor
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits is a Senior Researcher of Social Anthropology at the European University Viadrina. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Migrating Borders and Moving Times (Manchester University Press, 2017) with Madeleine Hurd and Hastings Donnan.