ISBN:
0857459406
,
9780857459404
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 234 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
EASA series 21
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rytter, Mikkel Family upheaval
DDC:
305.891/412204895
Keywords:
Immigrant families
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Intergenerational relations
;
Marriage
;
Social mobility
;
Pakistanis Ethnic identity
;
Transnationalism
;
Pakistanis Social conditions
;
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
;
Denmark Ethnic relations
;
Denmark Social conditions 1945-
;
Denmark
;
Electronic book
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
