{"product_id":"refugee-cities-how-afghans-changed-urban-pakistan-hardback-9781512822809","title":"Refugee Cities; How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan (Hardback) 9781512822809","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRefugee Cities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSanaa Alimia (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512822809\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post–2001 War on Terror, \u003ci\u003eRefugee Cities \u003c\/i\u003etells 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.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRefugee Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Refugee Cities\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Background\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Ghosts of Empire: The Afghan Question in Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Claiming Rights\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Right to Water in an Informal Refugee Camp\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Bulldozers and Violence in a Pakistani Settlement\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Peshawar's Afghan Transformation\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Pushing Out Afghans\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Surveillance, Documents, and Repatriation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610730000664,"sku":"9781512822809","price":60.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/refugee-cities-how-afghans-changed-urban-pakistan-hardback-9781512822809","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}