The Measurements of Boundary Kin in an Inheritance Bubble in Romania

Struggles between current tenants and the heirs of former owners over property rights in post-socialist housing restitution Romania often unfold through kinship measurements. I use notion ‘boundary kin’—relatives who different situations may be considered as either near or distant—to capture role that measurements play these conflicts. Expanding ties to past, a large number persons are seeking restitution. In this ‘inheritance bubble’, importance material basis documenting certifying increases. an effort limit restitution, question genealogical, geographical, temporal proximity potential original owners, embedding instead care, past suffering, engagements with, knowledge of, object.