Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / / Mikkel Rytter
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| Autore: |
Rytter Mikkel
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| Titolo: |
Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / / Mikkel Rytter
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 305.891/412204895 |
| 305.891412204895 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Pakistanis - Denmark - Social conditions |
| Immigrant families - Denmark | |
| Immigrants - Denmark - Social conditions | |
| Intergenerational relations - Denmark | |
| Marriage - Denmark | |
| Social mobility - Denmark | |
| Pakistanis - Denmark - Ethnic identity | |
| Transnationalism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Denmark Ethnic relations |
| Denmark Social conditions 1945- | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Family upheaval |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-940-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820387803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
EASA series ; ; 21.