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158349
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107540
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2011.
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Afghanistan's territory and populations have long been crucial nodes for the assertion of regional and global projects of domination. In order to gain analytical insight into the identity and dispositions of such projects, the paper studies one significant episode of intervention over Afghan populations: the three-decade long protection and assistance practices in support of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The paper has three objectives. First, it highlights the enabling aspects of Afghan refugee movement, that is, as constitutive and generative of complex politico-institutional orders and of social hierarchies, at a variety of scales. Second, it locates the analytical understanding of such orders and hierarchies within academic narratives that postulate a relation between refugee interventions and imperial politico-institutional orders. Third, it challenges some of the analytical tenets of such narratives by foregrounding the incompleteness and overlap of such institutional orders. On these bases, the article offers a nuanced and contextualized understanding of 'imperial order' as a form of rule that is premised on the continuous attempt to establish hierarchies out of a context of institutional disorder.
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144432
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While the phenomenon of migration is as old as humanity, it has been analysed as an economic and political factor only in the last two centuries. Beena Kirad notes that mass migrations in South Asia in the twentieth century substantially altered demographic and cultural characteristics in affected regions. Since the seventies, the large-scale exodus of Afghans into Pakistan has generated ethnic strife, economic problems and a criminalisation of the host society.
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181675
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This article locates the Government of India’s refusal to grant refugee status to Afghans in Delhi in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 within the Cold War politics of the era. I trace this history through internal communications of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India from 1979 to 1983. I argue that the Indian government’s response to Afghan arrivals was shaped by geopolitical and diplomatic contingencies rather than humanitarian ones. I also examine the intertwined history of Afghan refugees and the establishment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ office in Delhi, India.
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ID:
126910
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ID:
107687
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