KINSHIP

Effect of Migration on Kinship

Table of Contents

The Family Tree1

Family genealogy1

Kin relationships2

Gaps in the Family Tree3

Effect of religion and economic factors3

Knowledge about the family4

Data collection4

Conclusion4

References5

Effect of Migration on Kinship

The Family Tree

Turkish (Ghazvin)Irani (Kurdish)

Family genealogy

From the aforementioned family tree, it is visible that I have a large family, especially from my mother's side. I am Iranian. My mother belongs to a beautiful city in Iran called Kermanshah. This is called the Kurdish side of Iran. My father, on the other hand, is from the Turkish side which is the city of Ghazvin. My surname Ajorloo is the name of the village where my father belongs. In that village, people prefer to keep their surname after the name of the village they belong to. This is their own way of owning the place they live and taking pride in it. My mother's grandparents or my great grandparents also belong to a village in Iran. My mother's surname also comes from the name of her village in Iran. It is because of this reason that my great grandparents from my father's side both had the same surname at the time of their marriage. Although, I was born and raised in London, I have visited Iran many times during my childhood. Even today, as I go to see my family in Iran, I have noticed how people there have confined themselves within the boundaries of their own village. Back in the days of my great grandparents, this tribe in Iran would prefer to marry their kins at a very young age. This decision was influenced majorly by their religious beliefs, and because they preferred to marry their children to people with the same surname. This was a common practice although it does not have any religious background to it.

This practice of marriage with people of the same surname eventually got changed owing to the large number of migrations from one city to another and from one country to another (Dingle 2007, p. 114). The migrations led to inter tribal marriages and people got mixed with each other. I personally feel that this mix was a need of time. Even if, we look at the scientific explanation of this, we may see that people who belong to the same tribe and keep marrying within the family generation after generation give rise to many biological problems. For instance, the children born to such tribes may be challenged or in other words special. Hence, even biologically it is important that people may marry their children out of the family to expand the family.

Kin relationships

I have addressed certain people in the chart as my uncles and aunts. These are people whom I have met on my tours to Iran. They live there in Iran, and I have personally met them. Meeting them personally was good. It felt like we are a close family although there are many tens of thousands of miles between us, as they live in Iran and I live in ...