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.