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.

摘要

这篇文章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如何塑造慢性病。这篇文章没有孤立地检查慢性病的经历，而是考虑了弱势群体和试图照顾他们的人如何经历远亲和近亲之间不断演变的关系、紧张、竞争和冲突的网络。这些冲突是由缺席经历和亲密亲属的生活所塑造的，并且经常以暴力形式出现。在驾驭这些关系时，