ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the effect of globalization on kinship and family life. Kinship structures and family ties are closely interwoven with this globalizing migration. Much like the Golden Arches being transplanted to Asia, the forces of globalization everywhere encounter different responses in terms of kinship and family. Transnational adoption is growing; it is escalating the flow of children in one direction and ideas of childhood and kinship in another. Kinship structures and family ties are closely interwoven with this globalizing migration. Along with the poverty that globalization sustains are the tensions between the local practice of child circulation and state intervention. Child circulation is the relocation of a child or young person from his or her natal household to another household. An interesting dimension of child circulation in Peru is the role of the transferred children in establishing or enhancing strong relationships among the participating adults.
