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Against long-standing§characterizations of British Asians as 'flying the flag' for traditional life,§this book identifies an increase in marital breakdown and argues to reorient§debates about conservatism and authoritarianism in British Asian families. Qureshi§draws on a rich ethnographic study of marital breakdown among working class§Pakistani Muslims in order to unpick the grounds of marital conflict, the§manoeuvres couples undertake in staying together, their interactions with§divorce laws and their moral reasonings about post-divorce family life. Marital§Breakdown among British Asians argues against individualization approaches,§demonstrating the embeddedness of couples in extended family relations, whilst§at the same time showing that Pakistani marriages and divorces do not deviate§in all respects from wider marital separation trajectories in Britain.§Providing new insights into how marital breakdown is changing the contours§of British Asian families, this book will be essential reading for scholars and§students, clinicians working in couple or family therapy, social workers and§legal practitioners.§

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• Full title: Marital Breakdown among British Asians
• Subtitle: Conjugality, Legal Pluralism and New Kinship
• Author: Kaveri Qureshi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 324
• EAN: 9781137570468
• ISBN: 1137570466
• ID: 02935497
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 554 g
• Dimensions: 262 × 158 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 2016

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