Family Upheaval : : Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark / / Mikkel Rytter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rytter, Mikkel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of figures --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I. Histories --; Part II. Marriages --; Part III. Homelands --; Part IV. Afflictions --; Conclusion: family upheaval --; References --; Glossary --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857459404; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857459404
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mikkel Rytter.

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.