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Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a necessary glimpse of what ordinary life looks like for a long-term refugee population, beyond the headlines of war, terror, or helpless suffering. It also increases our understanding of how cities-rather than the nation-are important sites of identity-making for people of migrant origins.
In Refugee Cities, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs local microhistories to chronicle the lives of ordinary people living in low-income neighborhoods in Peshawar and Karachi and the ways in which they have transformed the cities of which they are a part. In Pakistan, formal citizenship is almost impossible for Afghans to access; despite this, Afghans have made new neighborhoods, expanded city boundaries, built cities through their labor in construction projects, and created new urban identities-and often they have done so alongside Pakistanis. Their struggles are a crucial, neglected dimension of Pakistan's urban history. Yet given that the Afghan experience in Pakistan is profoundly shaped by geopolitics, the book also documents how, in the War-on-Terror era, many Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan. This book, then, is also a documentation of the multiple displacements migrants are subject to and the increased normalization of deportation as a part of "refugee management."
Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a necessary glimpse of what ordinary life looks like for a long-term refugee population, beyond the headlines of war, terror, or helpless suffering. It also increases our understanding of how cities-rather than the nation-are important sites of identity-making for people of migrant origins.
In Refugee Cities, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs local microhistories to chronicle the lives of ordinary people living in low-income neighborhoods in Peshawar and Karachi and the ways in which they have transformed the cities of which they are a part. In Pakistan, formal citizenship is almost impossible for Afghans to access; despite this, Afghans have made new neighborhoods, expanded city boundaries, built cities through their labor in construction projects, and created new urban identities-and often they have done so alongside Pakistanis. Their struggles are a crucial, neglected dimension of Pakistan's urban history. Yet given that the Afghan experience in Pakistan is profoundly shaped by geopolitics, the book also documents how, in the War-on-Terror era, many Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan. This book, then, is also a documentation of the multiple displacements migrants are subject to and the increased normalization of deportation as a part of "refugee management."
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction. Refugee Cities
Part I. Background
Chapter 1. Ghosts of Empire: The Afghan Question in Pakistan
Part II. Claiming Rights
Chapter 2. The Right to Water in an Informal Refugee Camp
Chapter 3. Bulldozers and Violence in a Pakistani Settlement
Chapter 4. Peshawar's Afghan Transformation
Part III. Pushing Out Afghans
Chapter 5. Surveillance, Documents, and Repatriation
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781512822861 |
| ISBN-10: | 1512822868 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Alimia, Sanaa |
| Hersteller: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Maße: | 226 x 150 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sanaa Alimia |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.09.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,364 kg |
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction. Refugee Cities
Part I. Background
Chapter 1. Ghosts of Empire: The Afghan Question in Pakistan
Part II. Claiming Rights
Chapter 2. The Right to Water in an Informal Refugee Camp
Chapter 3. Bulldozers and Violence in a Pakistani Settlement
Chapter 4. Peshawar's Afghan Transformation
Part III. Pushing Out Afghans
Chapter 5. Surveillance, Documents, and Repatriation
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781512822861 |
| ISBN-10: | 1512822868 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Alimia, Sanaa |
| Hersteller: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Maße: | 226 x 150 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sanaa Alimia |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.09.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,364 kg |
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