Family upheaval [electronic resource] : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA series ; v. 21.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 234 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.891/412204895 23
LOC classification:
  • DL142.P34 R97 2013eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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