Questioning migrants : ethnic nationalism at the limits of Pakistan / Tahir Naqvi.
| Author/creator | Naqvi, Tahir H. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | South Asia in the social sciences South Asia in the social sciences. ^A1379010 |
| Contents | Part I -- Prelude: "This Is Pakistan" -- Regulating the unthinkable: Violence, migration, and the making of the state -- Concerning voluntary migrants -- After Hijrat: The urban and subjective terrain of settlement -- The one, divisible -- Part II -- Prelude: Ilaaqa Ghair -- Sensing urban violence/becoming a nation -- The "rise" of the MQM: Urban non-elite citizens and the space of martial rule -- Questioning Muslim Nationalism. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Naqvi, Tahir H., Questioning migrants Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024 9781009492294 |
| LCCN | 2024033923 |
| ISBN | 9781009492300 |
| ISBN | 1009492306 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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