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Transnational Pakistani Connections
Marrying ‘Back Home’
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Transnational Marriage
New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...
Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge