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Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rytter, Mikkel.
- Series:
- EASA series ; 21.
- EASA series ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistanis--Denmark--Social conditions.
- Pakistanis.
- Immigrant families--Denmark.
- Immigrant families.
- Immigrants--Denmark--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Intergenerational relations--Denmark.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Marriage--Denmark.
- Marriage.
- Social mobility--Denmark.
- Social mobility.
- Pakistanis--Denmark--Ethnic identity.
- Transnationalism.
- Denmark--Ethnic relations.
- Denmark.
- Denmark--Social conditions--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pakistani migrant families in Denmark find themselves in a specific ethno-national, post-9/11 environment where Muslim immigrants are subjected to processes of non-recognition, exclusion and securitization. This ethnographic study explores how, why, and at what costs notions of relatedness, identity, and belonging are being renegotiated within local families and transnational kinship networks. Each entry point concerns the destructive-productive constitution of family life, where neglected responsibilities, obligations, and trust lead not only to broken relationships, but also, and inevitably
- Contents:
- Part 1. Histories
- Macro-perspectives : the usual suspects
- Micro-perspectives : contested notions of improvements
- Part 2. Marriages
- Between preferences : love marriages as symbolic mobility
- Welfare-state nomads in the borderlands of Sweden and Denmark
- "The Danish family" and "the aliens"
- Part 3. Homelands
- Pakistan-Denmark : back and forth
- An imagined return : negotiations of identity and belonging
- The Kashmir earthquake : dynamics of intensive transnationalism
- Part 4. Afflictions
- In-laws and outlaws : suspicions of local and transnational sorcery
- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life
- Conclusion: Family upheaval
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857459404
- 0857459406
- OCLC:
- 855505469
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