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Kinship Matters

Edited by: Fatemeh Ebtehaj, Bridget Lindley, Martin Richards

ISBN13: 9781841136974
ISBN: 1841136972
Published: September 2006
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £80.00



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This book is the fifth in a series by the Cambridge Socio-legal Group and is a product of a three day conference held in Cambridge in September 2005. It concerns the evolving notions and practices of kinship in contemporary Britain and the interrelationship of kinship, law and social policy. Assembling contributions from scholars in a range of disciplines, it examines social, legal, cultural and psychological questions related to kinship.

Rising rates of divorce and of alternative modes of partnership have raised questions about the care and well-being of children, while increasing longevity and mobility, together with lower birth rates and changes in our economic circumstances, have led to a reconsideration of duties and responsibilities towards the care of elderly people. In addition, globalisation trends and international flows of migrants and refugees have confronted us with alternative constructions of kinship and with the challenges of maintaining kinship ties transnationally.

Finally, new developments in genetics research and the growing use of assisted reproductive technologies may raise questions about our notions of kinship and of kin rights and responsibilities. The chapters in this book explore these changes and continuities from various disciplinary perspectives and draw on theoretical and empirical data to describe understandings and practices of kinship over time and across social groups in contemporary Britain. As will be evident throughout the book, meanings of kinship are multiple, contingent, and contested. Folk, institutional and disciplinary understandings constitute kinship in different ways, and these understandings shift with time and place.

Subjects:
Family Law
Contents:
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Regulating Relationships?
FATEMEH EBTEHAJ
Part 1: Who is Kin and what does it mean to be Kin in Contemporary British Society?
2. 'Close Marriage' in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Middle Strata
LEONORE DAVIDOFF
3. Status Anxiety? : The Rush for Family Recognition
ANDREW BAINHAM
4. DNA Testing and Kinship: Paternity, Genealogy and the Search for the 'Truth' of Genetic Origins
TABITHA FREEMAN and MARTIN RICHARDS
Part 2: Kin Care of children and adolescents
5. Children and Their Changing Families: Obligations, Responsibilities, and Benefits
JAN PRYOR
6. Substitute Care of Children by Members of Their Extended Families and Social Networks: An Overview
JOAN HUNT
7. Recognising Carers for hat they do - Legal Problems and Solutions for the Kinship Care of Children
JUDITH MASSON and BRIDGET LINDLEY
8. Restorative Practices: Repairing Harm through Kith and Kin
LORRAINE GELSTHORPE with LAYLA SKINNS
Part 3: Kin Contact and Care of Elderly People
9. Gender and Kinship in Contemporary Britain
JANE NOLAN and JACQUELINE SCOTT
10. Kin Availability, Contact and Support Exchanges between Adult Children and their Parents in Great Britain
EMILY GRUNDY and MICHAEL MURPHY
11. Maintenance of the Elderly and Legal Signalling - Kinship and State
MIKA OLDHAM
Part 4: Migrant Communities and Transnational kinship
12. The Impact of Migration on Care: Iranian Experiences
FATEMEH EBTEHAJ
13. Family Care and Transnational Kinship: British-Pakistani Experiences
KAVERI HARRISS and ALISON SHAW
14. Kinship, Infertility and New Reproductive Technologies: A British-Pakistani Muslim Perspective
NAZALIE IQBAL and ROBERT SIMPSON
Afterword
15. Kinship as Family in Contemporary Britain
JANET FINCH
Index