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.

本文在迁徙和迁徙的背景下考虑亲属关系。描绘了两种截然不同的亲属关系模型（“做”和“存在”，即表演性和描述性），强调了流动性和迁徙与强调其表演性的亲属关系模型是如何特别匹配的。我以运动和迁徙为棱镜，来说明亲属关系如何提供独特的动态资源库，以创造性地想象并付诸实践，使人们能够在遥远和近距离的新世界中生活和生活。与其说是异常或异常，不如说是流动性是亲属关系产生的能力之一。