Migration and Small Towns in Pakistan

Migration and Small Towns in Pakistan
Title Migration and Small Towns in Pakistan PDF eBook
Author Arif Hasan
Publisher IIED
Pages 140
Release 2009
Genre Migration, Internal
ISBN 1843697343

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The New Pakistani Middle Class

The New Pakistani Middle Class
Title The New Pakistani Middle Class PDF eBook
Author Ammara Maqsood
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 190
Release 2017-11-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0674981510

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Pakistan’s presence in the outside world is dominated by images of religious extremism and violence. These images—and the narratives that interpret them—inform events in the international realm, but they also twist back around to shape local class politics. In The New Pakistani Middle Class, Ammara Maqsood focuses on life in contemporary Lahore, where she unravels these narratives to show how central they are for understanding competition and the quest for identity among middle-class groups. Lahore’s traditional middle class has asserted its position in the socioeconomic hierarchy by wielding significant social capital and dominating the politics and economics of urban life. For this traditional middle class, a Muslim identity is about being modern, global, and on the same footing as the West. Recently, however, a more visibly religious, upwardly mobile social group has struggled to distinguish itself against this backdrop of conventional middle-class modernity, by embracing Islamic culture and values. The religious sensibilities of this new middle-class group are often portrayed as Saudi-inspired and Wahhabi. Through a focus on religious study gatherings and also on consumption in middle-class circles—ranging from the choice of religious music and home décor to debit cards and the cut of a woman’s burkha—The New Pakistani Middle Class untangles current trends in piety that both aspire toward, and contest, prevailing ideas of modernity. Maqsood probes how the politics of modernity meets the practices of piety in the struggle among different middle-class groups for social recognition and legitimacy.

Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf

Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf
Title Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf PDF eBook
Author Florian Wiedmann
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 231
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1788316266

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Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate work forces and foreigners arriving from various places. Recent migration patterns in the Gulf have led to emerging 'airport societies' on unprecedented scales. Most guest workers, both labourers and mid to high-income groups, perceive their stay as a temporary opportunity to earn suitable income or gain experience. This timely book analyses the essential characteristics of this unique urban phenomenon substantiated by concrete examples and empirical research. Both authors have lived and worked in the Gulf including Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates during various periods between 2006 and 2014. They explore Gulf cities from macro and interconnected perspectives rather than focusing solely on singular aspects within the built environment. As academic architects specialised in urbanism and the complex dynamics between people and places the authors build new bridges for understanding demographic and social changes impacting urban transformations in the Gulf.

The Bombay Calendar and Almanac

The Bombay Calendar and Almanac
Title The Bombay Calendar and Almanac PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 582
Release 1841
Genre Almanacs, English
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Refugee Cities

Refugee Cities
Title Refugee Cities PDF eBook
Author Sanaa Alimia
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 249
Release 2022-09-13
Genre History
ISBN 1512822795

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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.”

The Myth of Return

The Myth of Return
Title The Myth of Return PDF eBook
Author Muhammad Anwar
Publisher Heinemann Educational Publishers
Pages 294
Release 1979
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Monograph on immigration and social adjustment of pakistanis in the UK - shows how prejudice and racial discrimination, resistance to cultural change (religion, educational background), etc. Slow down social integration, and discusses the social role of the ethnic group in helping immigrants to adjust (housing, job searching, child care etc.), Family structure, occupation, trade union and political participation, factors militating against return migration, etc. Bibliography pp. 245 to 253, diagrams, glossary, maps and references.

South Asia Migration Report 2017

South Asia Migration Report 2017
Title South Asia Migration Report 2017 PDF eBook
Author S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 368
Release 2016-11-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1315297884

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South Asians comprise over 15 per cent of all international migrating population, among the highest in the world. The countries of the Persian Gulf are perhaps still the largest recipients of migrant workers. A unique economy has developed between these two regions, with all South Asian nations being major beneficiaries and featuring among the top twenty countries receiving maximum remittances globally. The South Asia Migration Report 2017 is the first of its kind, documenting migration profiles, diaspora, recruitment and remittances, both in individual countries as well as the South Asian region as a whole. It also discusses skilled, unskilled and internal migrations. The volume: includes on-the-ground studies from six nations: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan; discusses public policy, effects of global recession on the region and its impact on migration; and examines the process of reintegration of returning migrants. This book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, labour studies and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers and government institutions working in the area.