Refugee Cities – How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan Alimia Paperback

Refugee CitiesHow Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan\nAuthor(s): Sanaa Alimia\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512822861, 978-1512822861\nSynopsis\nSituated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post2001 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 citiesrather than the nationare important sites of identity-making for people of migrant origins.\n 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 th""