Family Upheaval

<p> 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.</p>