Making kinship away from home: chronic disease and the Pakistani diaspora in the US

Q2 Social Sciences

Asian anthropology Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/1683478X.2022.2161121

S. Khan

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Abstract

Abstract The article considers several generations of Pakistani immigrants from Karachi to various cities in the United States such as Chicago and New York and explores how chronic diseases are shaped by the reverberations of conflict in kin relations in the US and Pakistan. Instead of examining the experience of chronic illness in isolation, the article considers how webs of evolving relations, tensions, competition, and conflicts among distant and close kin are experienced by the vulnerable and those who try to care for them. These conflicts are shaped by the experience of absence and also in the lives of intimate kin, and often appear in violent form. In navigating these relations, caregivers of those with illnesses develop strategies to maintain communications with wider kinship networks while also shielding the sick from the ramifications of ongoing disputes.

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远离家乡的亲属关系：慢性病与散居美国的巴基斯坦人

摘要本文考虑了从卡拉奇到芝加哥和纽约等美国多个城市的几代巴基斯坦移民，并探讨了美国和巴基斯坦亲属关系冲突的影响是如何形成慢性病的。这篇文章没有孤立地研究慢性病的经历，而是考虑了弱势群体和那些试图照顾他们的人是如何经历远亲和近亲之间不断演变的关系、紧张关系、竞争和冲突的。这些冲突是由缺席的经历和亲密亲属的生活所形成的，通常以暴力的形式出现。在处理这些关系时，疾病患者的护理人员制定了与更广泛的亲属网络保持沟通的策略，同时也保护患者免受持续纠纷的影响。

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Asian anthropology Social Sciences-Anthropology

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