Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter.
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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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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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.