Abstract
The paper presents comparison between two distinct migratory processes, based on kinship relationships and family metaphors. The question, "who's in the family?" is answered in dialogue with the new kinship studies in Anthropology and, mainly, focusing on family conceptions and obligations between alternative travelers living in Goiás' countryside and between Brazilian workers at the mining camps in Venezuela. It can be said that people set themselves in motion in response to some transformation or need for transformation. Alternatives dream of a new lifestyle and the miners with work and wealth. In the cases on screen, families, each one in its own way, assume centrality, since they are perceived as cause and effect of the mobility condition.
Keywords:
kinship; mobility; work; lifestyle