... and often has unexpected consequences for document lenders and borrowers. To those involved in the practice kinship seems to provide some stability and safety while dealing with possible dangers. Thus document lenders and borrowers forge relations they call kinship, expressed in a language of siblinghood...

... in the Netherlands. The chapter explores how transatlantic kinship, expressed in a language of siblinghood (“black brotherhood”), between African migrants and Afro-Caribbean Dutch citizens facilitates marriages between them. It also examines the effects of Dutch policies designed to restrict access to migrant...