M Rytter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 14828 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Rytter |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Rytter |
| FIRMA | RYTTER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1973-2071 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 370 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
From integration to reorientation
This article builds on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2022-2024 with families from DR Congo, who have been resettled in Denmark since 2021 through the UNHCR-program. It draws on Sara Ahmed’s concept of “orientation” – including disorientation and reorientation – to develop a new approach to conceptualizing and understanding newly arrived refugees’ experiences with their new surroundings. In contrast to the deeply problematic concept of integ…
Providing Specialised Palliative Care to Families With Ethnic Minority Background
This study aimed to contribute to an understanding of how culturally responsive palliative care can be supported, explored through perspectives of palliative care specialists. In interviews, participants described good end-of-life trajectories as including patient autonomy, withdrawal of medically futile treatments, and symptom control. Participants experienced that these ideals were sometimes challenged in clinical encounters with patients and t…
What's in a beard
This article examines how for contemporary Danish Muslim men, growing a beard becomes a spiritual practice and a marker of visible difference. Drawing on Clifford Geertz's interpretive approach to symbolic meaning, the analysis explores how a beard can function simultaneously as an expression of religious devotion and a contested symbol in public spaces. Through ethnographic research with an offshoot of the global Sufi order referred to as Naqshb…
Intergenerational entrainment
An increasing number of Pakistani immigrants in Denmark are aging and need different kinds of help and care. Still, few receive the homecare-service provided by the welfare state. Instead, family members care for them at home in complex care arrangements. This article discusses how concerns for elderly care inform marriage strategies in the upcoming generation. However, the future-oriented marriage strategy is complicated by social mobility, incr…
Hvis du kun har en hammer, ligner alt et søm
Det er naturligvis dejligt med læsere, når et forskningsprojekt munder ud i en bog som “Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: Kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring” (Rytter, Sparre, Ismail og Liversage 2021), der kaster lys over et i dansk sammenhæng hidtil ubeskrevet område – nemlig indvandrer- og flygtningefamiliers strategier i forhold til ældreomsorg. Men i stedet for at forholde sig til bogens problemstilling om omsorgsarbejde og ældre…
Tiltrædelsesforelæsning
Lettere redigeret tiltrædelsesforelæsning ved Mikkel Rytter, Afdeling for Antropologi, Aarhus Universitet
Forankringspraksisser i Vestjylland
Denne artikel præsenterer forskning, der følger en række migrantfamilier fra Ukraine og Rumænien bosat i Vestjylland. Familierne har bosat sig i denne del af Danmark for at udfylde aktuelle huller i den lokale arbejdsstyrke i en region, hvor befolkningen samtidig bliver ældre og ældre. På basis af etnografiske data indsamlet gennem fire måneders feltarbejde sætter artiklen fokus på børns rolle og muligheder for at skabe netværk og sociale kontakt…
At the borders of the coroNation
Muslim immigrants are vulnerable to COVID-19. They are not only at risk being infected due to extended households and frontline jobs, but they are also vulnerable to moral panics, stigmatization and corona-racism. When Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen in March 2020 closed down society, she appealed to the samfundssind (civic consciousness) of all citizens in Denmark, as a means to fight the invisible enemy of the global pandemic. The idea…
Interviewsamtale
Interviewsamtale: Om at bedrive forskning i et politiseret felt
En mor i Danmark og en mor i Afghanistan
En relativt stor del af de asylansøgere, der ankom til Danmark under 'migrationenslange sommer' i 2015, var under 18 år og rejste uden voksne familiemedlemmer.Antallet af uledsagede flygtninge fra Afghanistan var 844 i 2015234og 527 i 2016. Som mindreårige modtager de professionel hjælp, omsorg ogrådgivning i deres asylproces, ligesom de bor på centre med andre børn og unge.Når de bliver tildelt flygtningestatus, får de også tilknyttet en værge, …
From Integration to Deportation
Following the so-called "paradigm shift" in Danish refugee policy in 2019, the previous ambition of "integration" was replaced by a state strategy of revocation and deportation. This article suggests that the political change reflects the development of a particular "grammar of identity," where refugees are viewed as exogenous "others" who are neither seen nor recognized as part of the Danish nation and welfare state. The grammar tends to cast ex…
Family Upheaval
Pakistani migrant families in Denmark find themselves in a specific ethno-national, post-9/11 environment where Muslim immigrants are subjected to processes of non-recognition, exclusion and securitization. This ethnographic study explores how, why, and at what costs notions of relatedness, identity, and belonging are being renegotiated within local families and transnational kinship networks. Each entry point concerns the destructive-productive …
Silence Agreements in Danish Elderly Care
This paper explores the composite of elderly immigrants, self-appointed helpers (selvudpegede hjælpere) and care managers (visitatorer) in Danish municipalities. Free elderly care is a common good in the Danish welfare state. Instead of using the homecare service provided by the municipality, many elderly citizens with a Muslim immigrant background prefer to have a family member contracted as their self-appointed helper. The self-appointed helper…
Food as care and friction in late life
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Vejen til paradis
Vejen til paradis” er en etnografisk fiktion, der befinder sig i rummet mellem gængs etnografisk fremstilling og en mere litterær tekst. Første del præsenterer fortællingen om en pakistansk migrantfamilie i Danmark, og udforsker de komplekse, ambivalente og ofte forbudte følelser, som man konfronteres med når et ældre familiemedlem bliver ramt af invaliderende sygdom eller, som i dette tilfælde, bliver dement og følgelig har brug for massiv hjælp…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Between Care and Contract
In Europe, a growing population of aging citizens have migrant background, and many have their origin in non-Western countries. Often, care arrangements in these families are different from those of the majority populations. In Denmark, a growing number of immigrant families utilise an option in the Social Service Act, under which municipalities can contract a family member to take care of an elderly citizen at home. Due to the special construct …
Marriage in the ruins of war
Marriage is a central life event and vital conjuncture in which the life trajectories and histories of two individuals and their respective families intersect. When the upcoming generation of Afghan refugees residing in Denmark marry, they often realise that the conflict, war and atrocities of the past seem to reappear and are expressed in different ways within and between the families. In this respect, Afghan families are haunted by the past. In…
Writing Against Integration
The article addresses some of the problems related to the concept of integration, which has been used (and abused) in Denmark since the 1990s to discuss socio-economic, cultural and religious challenges related to the everyday life of ethnic minorities. The concept of integration is not innocent but promotes both a specific conceptualisation of Danish society and a problematisation of immigrant minorities and their relationship to the indigenous …
Back to the future
Pakistani migrant families in Denmark are embedded in a transnational social field, one that stretches between the rural villages in Punjab that they left behind in the 1960s and 1970s, and their new home in greater Copenhagen. However, the upcoming generation, born and raised in Denmark, often has an ambivalent relationship with the homeland of their parents. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Sufi tariqa(order, path) called Naqshbandi Mujad…
Marieke van Houte
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Made in Denmark
This article discusses how the values and aspirations of the neo-liberal competition state(konkurrencestat) and self-dependent society (selvstændighedssamfund) have affected recently arrived refugees in Denmark. Besides a stricter border regime, the so-called 'refugee crisis' of 2015 also resulted in a new version of 'integration' in Denmark that emphasizes the values of responsibility (ansvar), self-sufficiency (selvforsørgelse) and independence…
A second look at invisibility
The hair of the Prophet
Forord
Dette dobbelte temanummer af Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 72 og 73 er baseret på et forskningsseminar afholdt i maj 2014 af det såkaldte Norden-netværk med titlen „Ethnographies of Welfare State Transformations“. Norden-netvæket bestå af danske antropologer fra forskellige akademiske institutioner, som har det til fæles, at de laver feltarbejde i Norden/Skandinavien og møes for at fremme antropologisk teoridannelse og debat om denne etnografiske …
Writing Against Integration
The article addresses some of the problems related to the concept of integration, which has been used (and abused) in Denmark since the 1990s to discuss socio-economic, cultural and religious challenges related to the everyday life of ethnic minorities. The concept of integration is not innocent but promotes both a specific conceptualisation of Danish society and a problematisation of immigrant minorities and their relationship to the indigenous …
A decade of suspicion
In 2011, al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, was killed in Pakistan and the US president, Barack Obama, concluded a decade of global 'war against terror'. It therefore only seems reasonable to explore what implications the post-9/11 international developments have had on a local basis in specific national contexts. With this in mind, this article focuses on Denmark, and discusses how the critical event of 9/11 motivated a security/integration-respo…
The Family of Denmark' and 'the Aliens
Applying insights from newer anthropological kinship studies, this article suggests that the current Danish immigration regime is based on and legitimized by a certain kind of 'kinship images' that are used and reproduced in Danish public and political discourses. Since 2002, every Danish citizen applying for family reunification with foreign spouses has been met with a 'requirement of national attachment', which basically distinguishes within th…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Between preferences
International literature shows that second-generation Pakistanis in the United Kingdom to a large extent marry spouses from the extended family in Pakistan. A similar picture was also recently to be found in Denmark. However, strict Danish legislation on family reunification introduced in 2002 and an increasing number of local love marriages have changed the overall picture. This article discusses how the new marriage preferences affect common no…
Semi-legal family life
In 2002, the Danish government introduced new legislation on family reunification to restrict the transnational arranged marriages that were occurring among some immigrant groups. Since then, thousands of people have emigrated from Denmark to Sweden where, as citizens of the European Union, they are entitled to family reunification. In this article, I introduce the concept of semi-legality to describe the situation whereby Pakistani transnational…
By the beard of the Prophet
This article discusses the significance of growing large beards among the young Danish Pakistani members of a newly established Naqshbandi Sufi order in Copenhagen, where the beard is not simply an imitation but a reflection of the Prophet Muhammad. Exploring emic understandings of emulation and embodiment, the article suggests that a conceptual displacement from imitation to reflection enables our analytical framework to move beyond the 'self-cu…
A second look at invisibility
Money or Education? Improvement Strategies Among Pakistani Families in Denmark
Tracing life stories and family histories back to rural Punjab, I explore the development and processes of upward social mobility of the Pakistani community in Denmark from the 1960s onwards. I suggest that social mobility among Pakistani immigrants and their descendants must be seen as the outcome of a village-like immigrant community's fierce competition for symbolic capital and recognition within the context of changing social and economic con…
Made in Denmark
This article discusses how the values and aspirations of the neo-liberal competition state(konkurrencestat) and self-dependent society (selvstændighedssamfund) have affected recently arrived refugees in Denmark. Besides a stricter border regime, the so-called 'refugee crisis' of 2015 also resulted in a new version of 'integration' in Denmark that emphasizes the values of responsibility (ansvar), self-sufficiency (selvforsørgelse) and independence…
In-laws and outlaws
This article explores how suspicions of kala jaddu (black magic) restructure local and transnational family networks among Pakistani immigrants in Denmark. The notions of 'working' and 'stealing' are analysed as two idioms that sum up what it means to 'be' and 'do' family. 'Working' refers to the expectations and moral obligations of the traditional patrilocal household, 'stealing' to the appropriation of emotional and material means through the …
The hair of the Prophet
A Sunbeam of Hope
This article discusses how notions of identity and belonging are negotiated between generations within Pakistani families in Denmark. Presenting the case of A Sunbeam of Hope, a stage play written and performed by members of the Organisation of Pakistani Students and Academics (OPSA), I discuss how the aspirations and experiences related to the process of migration differ in the older and younger generations of Pakistanis. The play is about a mig…
Food as care and friction in late life
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Marriage in the ruins of war
Marriage is a central life event and vital conjuncture in which the life trajectories and histories of two individuals and their respective families intersect. When the upcoming generation of Afghan refugees residing in Denmark marry, they often realise that the conflict, war and atrocities of the past seem to reappear and are expressed in different ways within and between the families. In this respect, Afghan families are haunted by the past. In…
Back to the future
Pakistani migrant families in Denmark are embedded in a transnational social field, one that stretches between the rural villages in Punjab that they left behind in the 1960s and 1970s, and their new home in greater Copenhagen. However, the upcoming generation, born and raised in Denmark, often has an ambivalent relationship with the homeland of their parents. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Sufi tariqa(order, path) called Naqshbandi Mujad…
From Integration to Deportation
Following the so-called "paradigm shift" in Danish refugee policy in 2019, the previous ambition of "integration" was replaced by a state strategy of revocation and deportation. This article suggests that the political change reflects the development of a particular "grammar of identity," where refugees are viewed as exogenous "others" who are neither seen nor recognized as part of the Danish nation and welfare state. The grammar tends to cast ex…
Between Care and Contract
In Europe, a growing population of aging citizens have migrant background, and many have their origin in non-Western countries. Often, care arrangements in these families are different from those of the majority populations. In Denmark, a growing number of immigrant families utilise an option in the Social Service Act, under which municipalities can contract a family member to take care of an elderly citizen at home. Due to the special construct …
Indledende perspektiver
Introduktion
Pakistan Tur-Retur
This article inquires into the 'homeland imaginary' of Pakistani who emigrated to Denmark during the past four decades. In addition to the search for economic prosperity, the generations of migrants have also created visions of the places they came from and their relations to the family members left behind. The 'homeland imaginary' gives emphasis to the 'good life' in the bosom of caring, extended families. Nostalgic yearning to revitalize such f…
The Scent of a Rose
This chapter discusses the study of experience and affect in an ecstatic religious ritual.1 More precisely it focuses on the gatherings of zikr Allah, performed three times a week among Danish Pakistani Sufi brothers who follow the transnational tariqa (path, order) called Naqshbandi Mujadiddi Saifi, named after the late shaykh Saif ur-Rahman, who passed away in 2010 and has his shrine at the outskirts of Lahore in Pakistan. At the zikr gathering…
Partnervalgets grænse
I 2002 indførte Folketinget en række nye regler vedrørende muligheden for ægtefællesammenføring til Danmark. Siden dengang har mange danske statsborgere fået afslag på ægtefællesammenføring og er i stedet flyttet til Sverige, hvor de kan opnå sammenføring under de gældende regler for EU-borgere. Blandt pakistanske migranter i Danmark har et overvejende flertal i mange år giftet sig med ægtefæller fundet i Pakistan. Gruppen af dansk-pakistanere er…
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Events and Effects
Analyzing the period of 'intensive transnationalism' among Pakistani migrants in Denmark precipitated by the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, this article explores the relationship between events and effects on a global scale. One significant initiative after the disaster was the founding of an ad hoc association, Medical Doctors in Assistance to the Earthquake Victims in Pakistan, which consisted mainly of medical workers with a Pakistani background.…
A Sunbeam of Hope
This article discusses how notions of identity and belonging are negotiated between generations within Pakistani families in Denmark. Presenting the case of A Sunbeam of Hope, a stage play written and performed by members of the Organisation of Pakistani Students and Academics (OPSA), I discuss how the aspirations and experiences related to the process of migration differ in the older and younger generations of Pakistanis. The play is about a mig…
In-laws and outlaws
This article explores how suspicions of kala jaddu (black magic) restructure local and transnational family networks among Pakistani immigrants in Denmark. The notions of 'working' and 'stealing' are analysed as two idioms that sum up what it means to 'be' and 'do' family. 'Working' refers to the expectations and moral obligations of the traditional patrilocal household, 'stealing' to the appropriation of emotional and material means through the …
The Family of Denmark' and 'the Aliens
Applying insights from newer anthropological kinship studies, this article suggests that the current Danish immigration regime is based on and legitimized by a certain kind of 'kinship images' that are used and reproduced in Danish public and political discourses. Since 2002, every Danish citizen applying for family reunification with foreign spouses has been met with a 'requirement of national attachment', which basically distinguishes within th…
Money or Education? Improvement Strategies Among Pakistani Families in Denmark
Tracing life stories and family histories back to rural Punjab, I explore the development and processes of upward social mobility of the Pakistani community in Denmark from the 1960s onwards. I suggest that social mobility among Pakistani immigrants and their descendants must be seen as the outcome of a village-like immigrant community's fierce competition for symbolic capital and recognition within the context of changing social and economic con…
Fra integration til sikkerhed – med Danmark som case
Semi-legal family life
In 2002, the Danish government introduced new legislation on family reunification to restrict the transnational arranged marriages that were occurring among some immigrant groups. Since then, thousands of people have emigrated from Denmark to Sweden where, as citizens of the European Union, they are entitled to family reunification. In this article, I introduce the concept of semi-legality to describe the situation whereby Pakistani transnational…
Between preferences
International literature shows that second-generation Pakistanis in the United Kingdom to a large extent marry spouses from the extended family in Pakistan. A similar picture was also recently to be found in Denmark. However, strict Danish legislation on family reunification introduced in 2002 and an increasing number of local love marriages have changed the overall picture. This article discusses how the new marriage preferences affect common no…
Family Upheaval
Pakistani migrant families in Denmark find themselves in a specific ethno-national, post-9/11 environment where Muslim immigrants are subjected to processes of non-recognition, exclusion and securitization. This ethnographic study explores how, why, and at what costs notions of relatedness, identity, and belonging are being renegotiated within local families and transnational kinship networks. Each entry point concerns the destructive–productive …
Bønner og burgere – Forbudte fristelser under itikaf blandt sufi-brødre i Pakistan
Based on a number of burger incidents during ten days of itikaf at a Sufi astana (lodge) in Pakistan, this article discusses religious self-cultivation among Muslim pilgrims from Denmark. The focus on food and eating is not only used to discuss how religious brotherhoods and spiritual kinship are established and maintained, but also becomes a prism to discuss emic conceptualizations of nafs, the lower self, and how dedicated Sufis struggle with f…
Transnational Sufism from below
Pakistani migrants in Denmark have achieved a level of prosperity and social mobility that first-generation migrants could only dream of before they emigrated in the 1960s. However, their success has come at a price. Currently, migrant families are experiencing a period of radical social change, which challenges and alters their perception of well-being. In such a critical situation, they may turn towards Sufi shaykhs, located in Pakistan, for he…
A decade of suspicion
In 2011, al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, was killed in Pakistan and the US president, Barack Obama, concluded a decade of global 'war against terror'. It therefore only seems reasonable to explore what implications the post-9/11 international developments have had on a local basis in specific national contexts. With this in mind, this article focuses on Denmark, and discusses how the critical event of 9/11 motivated a security/integration-respo…
The Scent of a Rose
Forord
Dette dobbelte temanummer af Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 72 og 73 er baseretpå et forskningsseminar afholdt i maj 2014 af det såkaldte Norden-netværk medtitlen 'Ethnographies of Welfare State Transformations
Indledende perspektiver
Introduktion
Forord
Dette dobbelte temanummer af Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 72 og 73 er baseret på et forskningsseminar afholdt i maj 2014 af det såkaldte Norden-netværk med titlen „Ethnographies of Welfare State Transformations“. Norden-netvæket bestå af danske antropologer fra forskellige akademiske institutioner, som har det til fæles, at de laver feltarbejde i Norden/Skandinavien og møes for at fremme antropologisk teoridannelse og debat om denne etnografiske …
By the beard of the Prophet
This article discusses the significance of growing large beards among the young Danish Pakistani members of a newly established Naqshbandi Sufi order in Copenhagen, where the beard is not simply an imitation but a reflection of the Prophet Muhammad. Exploring emic understandings of emulation and embodiment, the article suggests that a conceptual displacement from imitation to reflection enables our analytical framework to move beyond the 'self-cu…
A second look at invisibility
The hair of the Prophet
Back to the future
Pakistani migrant families in Denmark are embedded in a transnational social field, one that stretches between the rural villages in Punjab that they left behind in the 1960s and 1970s, and their new home in greater Copenhagen. However, the upcoming generation, born and raised in Denmark, often has an ambivalent relationship with the homeland of their parents. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Sufi tariqa(order, path) called Naqshbandi Mujad…
Marieke van Houte
Marieke van Houte: Return Migration to Afghanistan. Moving Back or Moving Forward? Anmeldes af Mikkel Rytter
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