Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan Alimia Sanaa
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan Alimia Sanaa Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of…
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Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan Alimia Sanaa
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. 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. 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.
In Pakistan, formal citizenship is almost impossible for Afghans to access; despite this,