ABSTRACT

This article brings the concept of kinning from anthropology and the sociology of adoption and care work to the study of disaster response and migration. It looks at intimate relationships between the Chernobyl children from Belarus and host families in Italy within the humanitarian programme of child recuperation abroad and argues that these relationships can be understood as kinning. Kinning implies intimate disaster response, a process of fostering transnational relations at a people-to-people level during humanitarian assistance independently of non-state, state, and supranational institutions. The manuscript shows that kinning with host families in childhood resulted in educational migration of the grown-up Chernobyl children to Italy in adulthood. The essay concludes that disaster response and migration studies can benefit from studying the private and the personal in order to understand the mobility trajectories of disaster survivors. This is important when disaster survivors are children and disaster response and migration overlap with coming of age.

摘要

本文将来自人类学和收养和照料工作的社会学的亲属概念引入灾害响应和移民研究。它着眼于来自白俄罗斯的切尔诺贝利儿童与意大利的寄宿家庭在国外儿童康复人道主义计划中的亲密关系，并认为这些关系可以理解为亲属关系。Kinning 意味着亲密的灾难响应，这是一个在人道主义援助期间独立于非国家、国家和超国家机构而在人与人之间促进跨国关系的过程。手稿显示，童年时期与寄宿家庭结亲导致成年切尔诺贝利儿童在成年后接受教育迁移到意大利。本文得出结论，灾难响应和迁移研究可以从研究私人和个人中受益，以了解灾难幸存者的流动轨迹。当灾难幸存者是儿童并且灾难响应和迁移与成年期重叠时，这一点很重要。