{"product_id":"refugee-cities-sanaa-alimia-9781512822861","title":"Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan","description":"\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sanaa Alimia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1512822868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512822861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023","brand":"Sanaa Alimia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068248453375,"sku":"9781512822861","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b334763-0c13-4dbb-aaf6-e7a40644cc7e.jpg?v=1685417905","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/refugee-cities-sanaa-alimia-9781512822861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}