Questioning Migrants
Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-49230-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-49230-0 (ISBN)
This is a granular historical and ethnographic study of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement's (MQM) capacity to think beyond the exclusivism of Muhajir nationalism toward its contingency and toward a more plural and subaltern framing of the universal.
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 novelaspect of the MQM's platform was it demand for the recognition of Muhajirs as a separate, 'oppressed nationality' within Pakistan. Questioning Migrants is a granular historical and ethographic study of the MQM's capacity to think beyond the exlusivism 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.
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 novelaspect of the MQM's platform was it demand for the recognition of Muhajirs as a separate, 'oppressed nationality' within Pakistan. Questioning Migrants is a granular historical and ethographic study of the MQM's capacity to think beyond the exlusivism 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.
Tahir Naqvi teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University, San Antonio, USA.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | South Asia in the Social Sciences |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-49230-6 / 1009492306 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-49230-0 / 9781009492300 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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