ABSTRACT
Migration takes place in networks based on kinship or pseudo-kinship between people. This chapter examines the experience of families impacted by international migration. It opens with a description of the changes to the family in connection with global migration, especially in terms of its structure and identity as well as roles and practices. The chapter shows how the family is best construed as a school of deeper humanity to more fully take into account the glocal dimensions of the moral economy of kinship at work in families affected by international migration. It posits that Christian theology on the family in the context of global migration necessitates cross-cultural, transnational, intergenerational, and gender-sensitive perspectives. When international migration touches a family the immediate and most obvious changes and challenges have to do with its structure and identity.
