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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rytter, Mikkel
Corporate Author: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:EASA series ; v. 21.
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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.