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

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Author / Creator:Rytter, Mikkel.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:EASA series ; 21
EASA series ; v. 21.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13511253
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Other authors / contributors:European Association of Social Anthropologists.
ISBN:0857459406
9780857459404
1299777953
9781299777958
9780857459398
0857459392
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 inevitab.
Other form:Print version: Rytter, Mikkel. Family upheaval. 9780857459398 0857459392