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.