In Senegal, prolonged crisis has made money and gifts from abroad a critical source of support for families. Remittances that migrants send their families make up 10% of the country’s GDP, surpassing the total sum of development aid international donors provide the country. Whether or not migrants and their children recognize their kinship relations in Africa is thus critical to the material reproduction of Senegalese households. This paper examines transnational kinship relations among Senegalese in Dakar and its European diaspora, as a mean to rethink the global economy. I analyze international money transfers and acts of sending objects to Dakar via shared shipping containers to examine how migrants’ business endeavors emerge from and reconfigure transnational family relations. Drawing on fieldwork with senders in France and receivers in Senegal, as well as with the Senegalese couriers who organize the transport of shipping containers, I examine businesses that emerge at the intersection of remittances and entrepreneurism, to consider how economic expectations among kin can both encourage entrepreneurial practices within families and create obstacles that complicate monetary relations. Doing so, I consider I consider the many ways kinship is mediated by the global economy. Examining how these economic relations reconfigure the stakes of kinship, I focus attention on the act of receiving remittances, a practice of family-making routinely overlooked in literature on both kinship and migration. I consider the role of the “trusted receiver,” a person on the ground in Senegal who might be trusted to receive transfers of money and/or merchandise for a family (business). Receiving, I argue, is a deceptively simple task and one that can reveal the ways that kinship relations in Senegal are mediated by the global political economy.