Questioning Migrants (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009492300)

The Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), propelled by ethnic violence and led by university students with lower-middle-class backgrounds, transformed the cities of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh into an ethnic majoritarian stronghold at the unlikely height of a military dictatorship. The more novelaspect of the MQM's platform was it demand for the recognition of Muhajirs as a separate, 'oppressed nationality' within Pakistan. Questioning Migrants is a granular historical and ethographic study of the MQM's capacity to think beyond the exlusivism of Muhajir nationalism toward its contingency and toward a more plural and subaltern framing of the universal. It speaks to significant themes in Pakistan Studies: the legacies of Partition, the rise of the martial state, and the dynamics of urbanization and democracy.

Author: Tahir H. Naqvi
ISBN-10: 1009492306
ISBN-13: 9781009492300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2025
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d