In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages of kinship as open‐ended gatherings enables us to move away from fixed genealogical constructs of patrilineal and virilocal households and to theorize how different people may join or leave a kinship assemblage based on the fluctuations of emotional bonds over time. A rapidly changing socioeconomic landscape has contributed towards the unkinning of returning sisters from failed marriages, shifting filial duties, and matrifocal living. Such ‘divorced’ women make new kin through unofficial romantic partners, with whom they may choose to migrate together as a means to exert emotional agency. Thinking through ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ via single mothers reveals the gendered complexities of rural labour migration – of economic and affective‐sexual‐moral considerations – and how it is contingent on social reproductive support. Such an ethnographic corrective towards reductive explanations of climate‐induced migration and the vulnerability of ‘female‐headed households’ shows the importance of anthropology in understanding complex phenomena in a world undergoing rapid socioenvironmental change.

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亲属关系和单身母亲从“气候热点”移民的情感组合


在孟加拉国沿海地区，“亲属关系的情感组合”为无地的单身母亲迁移到砖窑、服装业和海湾地区产生了不同的能力。这群女性为了应对暴力或遗弃而返回原生家庭，却被研究亲属关系和移民的人类学家所忽视。将亲属关系的集合视为开放式的聚会，使我们能够摆脱父系和男性家庭的固定家谱结构，并根据情感纽带随时间的波动，从理论上解释不同的人如何加入或离开亲属关系。快速变化的社会经济格局导致从失败的婚姻中回归的姐妹们脱离亲属关系，转变孝道和母系生活。这些 “离婚 ”的女性通过非正式的浪漫伴侣结交新的亲属，她们可能会选择与这些伴侣一起迁移，以此来发挥情感能动性。通过单身母亲的“亲属情感组合”进行思考，揭示了农村劳动力迁移的性别复杂性——经济和情感-性-道德考虑——以及它如何取决于社会生殖支持。这种对气候引起的移民和“女性户主家庭”脆弱性的简化解释的民族学纠正表明，人类学在理解正在经历快速社会环境变化的世界中复杂现象的重要性。