Taking its starting point in a case study conducted among people of Pakistani origin in Copenhagen, Denmark, the paper is discussing processes and possibilities of identification in different spatial formations.  As Muslims, Danes of Pakistani origin are amongst the more stigmatized groups within the country.  The study to be presented is based on a material consisting of in depth interviews and group discussion in a respondent group differentiated by age (generation), gender and class. It takes its starting point in their everyday practices and experiences connected to what Ahmed (2000) calls Strange Encounters - embodied encounters between 'strangers' in everyday life. Through the lenses of 'experienced otherness' (postcoloniality) and (mis)recognition (Axel Honneth) their ambivalent relationship to the nation state are explored. In continuation of that it is explored how practices and identifications in other spatial formations might compensate or replace the contested construction of national identity. Here, the paper evolves around multiscalar ties and practices performed in the group and it reveals processes of identification performed in spatial scales reaching from bodily-aesthetic to local, urban and transnational/cosmopolitan ones. In this way it shows the complexity of processes boundary formation and scaling and rescaling of identities.