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

European Association of Social Anthropologists

New York : Berghahn Books [2013], 2013

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Rytter, Mikkel : Family upheaval (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-85745-940-6 (electronic bk.); 978-0-85745-940-4 (electronic bk.)

1-299-77795-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-299-77795-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-85745-939-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-85745-939-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-85745-939-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-85745-939-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Immigrant families -- Denmark ; Immigrants -- Denmark -- Social conditions ; Intergenerational relations -- Denmark ; Marriage -- Denmark ; Social mobility -- Denmark ; Pakistanis -- Denmark -- Ethnic identity ; Transnationalism ; Pakistanis -- Denmark -- Social conditions ; Denmark -- Ethnic relations ; Denmark -- Social conditions -- 1945- ; Electronic book

Denmark ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Ethnic relations ; Immigrant families ; Immigrants ; Social conditions ; Intergenerational relations ; Marriage ; Social conditions ; Social mobility ; Transnationalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations

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 inevitab

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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.