Questioning migrants

• Verfasst von: Naqvi, Tahir H. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Questioning migrants
• Titelzusatz: ethnic nationalism at the limits of Pakistan
• Verf.angabe: Tahir Naqvi
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xx, 200 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: South Asia in the social sciences ; 27
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-009-49230-0
• ISBN: 978-1-009-49232-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Pakistan / (k)Muttahida Qaumi Mahaz
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Naqvi, Tahir H: Questioning migrants. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2024 |(DLC)2024033924
• K10plus-PPN: 1905163401

Abstract

"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 novel aspect of the MQM's platform was its demand for the recognition of Muhajirs as a separate, "oppressed nationality" within Pakistan. Questioning Migrants is a granular historical and ethnographic study of the MQM's capacity to think beyond the exclusivism 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"--