Questioning migrants : ethnic nationalism at the limits of Pakistan /
"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 mo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | South Asia in the social sciences.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009492300 1009492306 |