Family Upheaval

Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-939-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rytter, Mikkel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART I: HISTORIES

Chapter 2. Macro-perspectives: the usual suspects

Chapter 3. Micro-perspectives: contested notions of improvements

PART II: MARRIAGES

Chapter 4. Between preferences: love marriages as symbolic mobility

Chapter 5. Welfare-state nomads in the borderlands of Sweden and Denmark

Chapter 6. ‘The Danish family’ and ‘the aliens’

PART III: HOMELANDS

Chapter 7. Pakistan-Denmark: back and forth

Chapter 8. An imagined return: negotiations of identity and belonging

Chapter 9. The Kashmir earthquake: dynamics of intensive transnationalism

PART IV: AFFLICTIONS

Chapter 10. In-laws and outlaws: suspicions of local and transnational sorcery

Chapter 11. Demonic migrations: the re-enchantment of middle-class life

Chapter 12. Conclusion: family upheaval

References

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Rytter, Mikkel
Mikkel Rytter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University where he is affiliated with the research program on contemporary ethnography and part of a cross-disciplinary project on Sufism and Transnational spirituality.