Many Pakistani families who travel between Denmark and Sweden are in a constant struggle, because Pakistani couples that one of them is a non-citizen are not allowed to live in Denmark right away. Many of these Pakistani couples have an arranged marriage often to someone they are already related to in some form, “Zagib…had married Sara, his paternal cousin, in Pakistan in 2004.” (PG.91) But if the spouse is not a Denmark citizen it makes the marriage difficult because the other non-citizen spouse may not become a citizen right away. So many couples have thought about moving to Sweden but it’s a tradition to live near one’s immediate family in the Pakistani families. Thus, these Pakistani families have a dilemma. In the article, “Semi-Legal Life: Pakistani Couples in the Borderlands of Denmark and Sweden,” Mikkel Rytter
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Rytter talks about all these families being torn by Denmark’s regulations for fifteen pages then maybe at most two pages counter acting that. I understand it’s hard to leave your family but it is illegally wrong to be living somewhere when you aren’t. In this article it lacks going into depth about the important issue of what would happen if the Pakistanis got caught. I don’t think some of these families think that completely through. Although I agree that getting to be a Denmark citizen is hard, Rytter, uses the Pakistani community in his article. Pakistanis reasoning seems doubtful because it would be easier to relate to see based off the different minorities who gets in. Another important fact left out is why their reunification got denied. The graph in the notes shows that roughly the Pakistani community makes up “roughly one percent of the reunifications in Denmark”. (PG.
Rytter talks about all these families being torn by Denmark’s regulations for fifteen pages then maybe at most two pages counter acting that. I understand it’s hard to leave your family but it is illegally wrong to be living somewhere when you aren’t. In this article it lacks going into depth about the important issue of what would happen if the Pakistanis got caught. I don’t think some of these families think that completely through. Although I agree that getting to be a Denmark citizen is hard, Rytter, uses the Pakistani community in his article. Pakistanis reasoning seems doubtful because it would be easier to relate to see based off the different minorities who gets in. Another important fact left out is why their reunification got denied. The graph in the notes shows that roughly the Pakistani community makes up “roughly one percent of the reunifications in Denmark”. (PG.