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AFGHAN REFUGEE (3) answer(s).
 
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Classy kids and down-at-heel intellectuals: status aspiration and blind spots in the contemporary ethnography of Iran / Olszewska, Zuzanna   Journal Article
Olszewska, Zuzanna Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract This article reviews the ways in which class, status, social mobility and their cultural ramifications have been considered (or failed to be considered) in recent ethnographic studies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It argues against the trend of privileging "resistance" to an oppressive state as a theoretical frame for documenting social phenomena in Iran: lifestyles and consumption patterns cannot be interpreted merely as signs of political rebellion because they are endowed with symbolic value as status attributes in a society whose class configurations are shifting. I present a number of sources and concepts that help to rethink these phenomena, and show how the experience of Afghan refugees living on the margins of Iranian cities illuminates both the opportunities and constraints created by the Islamic Republic's uneasy mix of political Islam, populism and neoliberalism. A focus on aspiration to upward mobility becomes a useful analytical lens that allows us to sidestep reductive dichotomies such as tradition/modernity or religion/secularism that are in practice blurred by its very pursuit.
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No consensus on the census / Aamir, Adnan   Journal Article
Aamir, Adnan Journal Article
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Transformation of the Afghan refugee: 1979-2009 / Safri, Maliha   Journal Article
Safri, Maliha Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract In the last 30 years, the social and linguistic articulation of the Afghan in Pakistan and Iran has gone from muhajir [refugee], to migrant, and even to terrorist. This article provides an overview of that transformation to demonstrate that it depends more on external factors rather than any fundamental change in the conditions structuring Afghan migration. Examining the migration regime operating between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran further confirms the problems of a refugee/migrant dualism.
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