Author: Elca StigterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghans
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Transnational Networks and Migration from Faryab to Iran
Author: Elca StigterSocial Networks and Migration in Wartime Afghanistan
Author: K. HarpvikenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230234208
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Drawing on fieldwork in the Herat area, Afghanistan, this book addresses migration patterns throughout three decades of war. It launches a framework for understanding the role of social networks for people's responses to war and disaster as well as mobilizing or maintaining material resources for security and gathering information.
The Pearl of Dari
Author: Zuzanna OlszewskaPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253017637
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An ethnographic study of poetry and its place among young Afghan refugees living in urban regions of Iran. The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the “Pearl of Dari” cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants in Iran, refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, are marginalized and restricted to menial jobs and lower-income neighborhoods. Ambitious and creative refugee youth have taken to writing poetry to tell their story as a group and to improve their prospects for a better life. At the same time, they are altering the ancient tradition of Persian love poetry by promoting greater individualism in realms such as gender and marriage. Zuzanna Olszewska offers compelling insights into the social life of poetry in an urban, Middle Eastern setting largely unknown in the West. Praise for The Pearl of Dari “The Pearl of Dari offers the reader the precious pearl of a genuine reading and learning experience. Zuzanna Olszewska combines solid scholarship with uplifting sensitivity to create a lively narrative replete with joyful discoveries of genuine personhood, agency, and humanity in the midst of multiple marginalities, an account of growing up amid layer upon layer of tension, bravely defying overwhelming odds.” —Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland “Olszewska’s virtuoso study explores how young progressive Afghan intellectuals use the writing and performance of poetry as a prestigious discourse, to sustain community and claim dignity in exile. Her work makes an essential new contribution in Persian literary studies, ethnolinguistics, and refugee cultural studies worldwide.” —Margaret A. Mills, Professor Emerita of Persian and Folklore, Ohio State University
Return to Afghanistan?
Author: Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia
Author: Katlyn QuenzerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498558437
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery provides fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Working out of diverse disciplinary traditions, the authors call on varied theoretical frameworks in order to challenge entrenched stereotypes and long-standing perspectives. This volume explores emerging directions in scholarship across a range of issues, including: the Gulf; Saudi strategizing; Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran; contemporary Turkish politics; the current Syrian conflict; Middle Eastern and Central Asian art; perceptions of security threats from Afghanistan; and the potential future role of China in the region. The authors in this volume have given wide-berth to dominant approaches to scholarship on the region, while grappling with overlooked issues and marginal populations in order to advance new frameworks. On the Periphery deserves a central place in future scholarly engagement with the Middle East and Central Asia.
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis
Author: Giulia ScalettarisPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805391682
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization. It provides analysis of Afghan refugee policies from an original position, with the author being both agency official and anthropologist, and articulates multiple levels of analysis: the micropolitics of practices as much as the institution and the multi-scalar power relations that shape its environment.
Afghan Returnees from NWFP, Pakistan, to Nangarhar Province
Author: Gulbadan HabibiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nangarhār (Afghanistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Afghans in Quetta
Author: Land Relations in Faryab Province
Author: Liz WilyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fāryāb (Afghanistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Who Owns the Farm?
Author: Jo GracePublisher:
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Category : Women farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description