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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820387803321

Autore

Rytter Mikkel

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-940-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations

Collana

EASA series ; ; 21

Disciplina

305.891/412204895

305.891412204895

Soggetti

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-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 inevitably