Family Upheaval: Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

Family Upheaval: Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark
ISBN-10
0857459406
ISBN-13
9780857459404
Category
Social Science
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2013-06-30
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Mikkel Rytter

Description

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.

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