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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rytter, Mikkel.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Description:	xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	EASA series ; 21 EASA series ; v. 21.
Subject:	Pakistanis -- Denmark -- Social conditions. Immigrant families -- Denmark. Immigrants -- Denmark -- Social conditions. Intergenerational relations -- Denmark. Marriage -- Denmark. Social mobility -- Denmark. Pakistanis -- Denmark -- Ethnic identity. Transnationalism. Ethnic relations. Immigrant families. Immigrants -- Social conditions. Intergenerational relations. Marriage. Social conditions. Social mobility. Transnationalism. Denmark -- Ethnic relations. Denmark -- Social conditions -- 1945- Denmark.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9159697

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Other authors / contributors:	European Association of Social Anthropologists.
ISBN:	9780857459398 (hardback : acid-free paper) 0857459392 (hardback : acid-free paper) 9780857459404 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of 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.