Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home'

ISBN-13: 9780815369066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 214 str.

Katharine Charsley

Opis

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational Pakistani marriages are between cousins or other more distant relatives, lending a particular texture to this transnational social field. Based on research in Britain and Pakistan, this book provides a rounded portrayal incorporating the emotional motivations for, and content of, these transnational unions.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Weddings 2. British Pakistanis and Transnationalism 3. Zarurat Rishta: Making and Maintaining Connections 4. Close Kin Marriage: Reducing and reproducing risk 5. Married but not married: the divisibility of weddings and the protection of women 6. Conflicting interests: rifts, concealment, izzat and emotion 7. Migrant Mangetars: masculinity, marriage and migration 8. Gender, Emotion, and Balancing the Picture

O autorze

Katharine Charsley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests are in gender, kinship and migration, with a particular specialism in marriage-related migration. Her edited volume Transnational Marriage was published by Routledge in 2012.