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Author Rytter, Mikkel.

Title Family upheaval [electronic resource] : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiii, 234 p. : ill.
Series EASA series ; 21
EASA series ; v. 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Denmark -- Ethnic relations.
Denmark -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780857459398 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780857459404 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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