1st Edition
Transnational Pakistani Connections Marrying ‘Back Home’
By Katharine Charsley
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
