Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark

Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark /

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...

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Main Author: Rytter, Mikkel
Corporate Author: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013
Series:EASA series ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Pakistanis > Denmark > Social conditions.
Immigrant families > Denmark.
Immigrants > Denmark > Social conditions.
Intergenerational relations > Denmark.
Marriage > Denmark.
Social mobility > Denmark.
Pakistanis > Denmark > Ethnic identity.
Transnationalism.
Denmark > Ethnic relations.
Denmark > Social conditions > 1945-
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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