{"product_id":"refugee-cities-how-afghans-changed-urban-pakistan-hardcover","title":"Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSanaa Alimia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanaa Alimia is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Aga Khan University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52630582886707,"sku":"9781512822809","price":159.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VzA5ekhZMmw2WHZ6aEl1UFA1cXY0Zz09.webp?v=1762163872","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/refugee-cities-how-afghans-changed-urban-pakistan-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}