Tahir H Naqvi

Questioning Migrants

Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan

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Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009492300
• ISBN-10: 1009492306
• Artikelnr.: 72104669

Autorenporträt

Tahir Naqvi teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University, San Antonio, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Prelude: 'This is Pakistan'
1. Regulating the Unthinkable: Violence, Migration and the Making of the State
2. Concerning Voluntary Migrants
3. After Hijrat: The Urban and Subjective Terrain of Settlement
4. The One, Divisible
Part II. Prelude: Ilaqa Ghair - Sensing Urban Violence/Becoming a Nation
5. The 'Rise' of the MQM: Urban Non-elite Citizens and the Space of Martial Rule
6. Questioning Muslim Nationalism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.