Refugee cities : how Afghans changed urban Pakistan /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alimia, Sanaa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Afghans > Pakistan.
Urbanization > Pakistan.
Afghans > Pakistan > Karachi > Social conditions.
Afghans > Pakistan > Peshawar > Social conditions.
Refugees > Pakistan.
Refugees > Afghanistan.
Cities and towns > Pakistan.
Réfugiés > Pākistān.
Villes > Pākistān.
Réfugiés > Afghānistān.
Afghans > Pākistān.
Urbanisation > Pākistān.
Afghans > Pākistān > Karāchi > Conditions sociales.
Afghans > Pākistān > Peshāwar > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Afghans
Afghans > Social conditions
Cities and towns
Refugees
Urbanization
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Pakistan > Karachi
Pakistan > Peshawar
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Refugee cities
  • Ghosts of empire: the Afghan question in Pakistan
  • The right to water in an informal refugee camp
  • Bulldozers and violence in a Pakistani settlement
  • Peshawar's Afghan transformation
  • Surveillance, documents, and repatriation.

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