2007
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-83332007000200012
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Abstract: The central themes of this article, family reunification in general, and DNA testing in particular, came to the fore during a research project about young Somalians in Finland. Since 1996, I have been conducting ethnographic research -in schools, youth clubs, streets and cafés -with youngsters from Somalia who arrived in Finland around 1994, and who attend Finnish schools in the suburbs of Helsinki. My general interest in this longitudinal study was to learn about the experiences of coming of age in highly dis… Show more

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“…One Peruvian I met in Madrid had contemplated marrying her Spanish boyfriend as a tactic to help her become a citizen and bring her children from Peru, but they had been told that because she had held her residence card for less than two years, twice the usual amount of documentation would be required of them. In other words, the government would act on the assumption that their marriage was by contract rather than “authentic.” But anxiety about authenticity can also be found deep in the heart of kinship: recall recent news stories about a proposed French policy to test the DNA of migrants’ family members to prove family relationships for reunification processes (see Hautaniemi ; Yngvesson :24) . While adoptive migration does not invite the same level of scrutiny with regard to testing the veracity of the relationship, there is intensive scrutiny of both parents and child (see Leinaweaver ) prior to the completion of the adoption, along with the perpetual questioning of adoptive relationships brought on by North American and European allegiance to the “as‐if” model of adoptive kinship.…”
Section: Reagrupación Familiar: Re‐groupingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…One Peruvian I met in Madrid had contemplated marrying her Spanish boyfriend as a tactic to help her become a citizen and bring her children from Peru, but they had been told that because she had held her residence card for less than two years, twice the usual amount of documentation would be required of them. In other words, the government would act on the assumption that their marriage was by contract rather than “authentic.” But anxiety about authenticity can also be found deep in the heart of kinship: recall recent news stories about a proposed French policy to test the DNA of migrants’ family members to prove family relationships for reunification processes (see Hautaniemi ; Yngvesson :24) . While adoptive migration does not invite the same level of scrutiny with regard to testing the veracity of the relationship, there is intensive scrutiny of both parents and child (see Leinaweaver ) prior to the completion of the adoption, along with the perpetual questioning of adoptive relationships brought on by North American and European allegiance to the “as‐if” model of adoptive kinship.…”
Section: Reagrupación Familiar: Re‐groupingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Family reunification has become increasingly important both for policymakers and for scholars (Bledsoe ; Hautaniemi ; Collard ; Bledsoe and Sow ).…”
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“…There are, however, many other situations-and interesting ethical points of debate-involving the use of DNA technology to confirm or negate family relations. Leaving aside issues pertaining to the institutionally required testing of individuals-as in the case, for example, of family reunification for immigrants (Hautaniemi 2007), Bloose-stringency^search for criminal offenders (Machado and Moniz 2014), or even paternity investigations (Fonseca 2009)-we consider in the present article the test's use in the promotion of human rights.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%