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Family Upheaval : Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 21Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857459398
  • 9780857459404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.891/412204895 23
LOC classification:
  • DL142.P34
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Histories -- Part II. Marriages -- Part III. Homelands -- Part IV. Afflictions -- Conclusion: family upheaval -- References -- Glossary -- Index
Summary: 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, to the innovative creation of new ones. By connecting the micro-politics of the migrant family with the macro-politics of the nation state and global conjunctures in general, the book argues that securitization and suspicion—launched in the name of “integration”—escalate internal community dynamics and processes of family upheaval in unpredicted ways.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Histories -- Part II. Marriages -- Part III. Homelands -- Part IV. Afflictions -- Conclusion: family upheaval -- References -- Glossary -- Index

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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, to the innovative creation of new ones. By connecting the micro-politics of the migrant family with the macro-politics of the nation state and global conjunctures in general, the book argues that securitization and suspicion—launched in the name of “integration”—escalate internal community dynamics and processes of family upheaval in unpredicted ways.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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