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

Publication Data

• Title Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark
• Author Mikkel Rytter
• Publisher Berghahn Books
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location New York
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Pakistanis :: Denmark :: Social conditions
• Immigrant families :: Denmark
• Immigrants :: Denmark :: Social conditions
• Intergenerational relations :: Denmark
• Marriage :: Denmark
• Social mobility :: Denmark
• Pakistanis :: Denmark :: Ethnic identity
• Transnationalism
• Denmark :: Ethnic relations
• Denmark :: Social conditions :: 1945-
• Denmark

Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark by Mikkel Rytter. ISBN 9780857459398. Published by Berghahn Books in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.