Overview

When compared to studies of the Indian diaspora, or even in the wider framework of diaspora studies, there is relatively meagre research about the Pakistani diaspora. This collection is the first to bring together the extant literature and provide both a historical and contemporary set of accounts. It is primarily about the processes associated with migration and settlement as seen from the receiving end. Even though Roger Ballard and Junaid Rana offer accounts of Pakistan's political economy, it is only in Frances Watkins chapter that migrant voices within Pakistan themselves speak. Even in this chapter their life stories are focused on the impact of migration. Though, given the transnational frame in which many Pakistani diasporic communities live, it is not really possible to solely focus on the place of settlement. Indeed, the shift from migration studies to transnational or diaspora research reflects the empirical reality of a non-linear dynamics inherent in migratory movements. Historically the notion that people move and settle in a sequential and traceable manner has been rightly disputed and the circular nature of migratory movements has come to the fore. Even though the issues that are raised in the majority of the chapters are concerned with adaptation and change in new environments, these are always linked or referenced to a transnational frame.

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Author:   Virinder S. Kalra
Publisher:   OUP Pakistan
Imprint:   OUP Pakistan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.651kg
ISBN:  

9780195476255

ISBN 10:   0195476255
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   January 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

FOREWORD ; EDITORS PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; LABOUR NARRATIVES ; 1. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION: PAKISTAN, BRITAIN, AND THE MIDDLE EAST BY ROGER BALLARD ; 2. CONTROLLING DIASPORA: ILLEGALITY, 9/11, AND PAKISTANI LABOR MIGRATION BY JUNAID RANA ; 3. THE MYTH OF ARRIVAL: PAKISTANIS IN ITALY BY ALI NOBIL ; 4. GOD DON'T KILL THE TRAVELLER, GRANT THEIR DESIRE THAT THEIR LAST BREATH BE AT HOME: AN ANALYSIS OF PAKHTUN MIGRANTS TALES BY FRANCIS WATKINS ; GENDERED ACCOUNTS ; 5. KINSHIP OBLIGATIONS, GENDER AND THE LIFE COURSE: RE-WRITING MIGRATION FROM PAKISTAN TO BRITAIN BY KAVERI HARRISS AND ALISON SHAW ; 6. RISK AND RITUAL: THE PROTECTION OF BRITISH PAKISTANI WOMEN IN TRANSNATIONAL MARRIAGE BY KATHARINE CHARSLEY ; 7.THESE GIRLS WANT TO GET MARRIED AS WELL: NORMALITY, DOUBLE DEVIANCE AND REINTEGRATION AMONGST BRITISH PAKISTANI WOMEN BY MARTA BOLOGNANI ; 8. RELIGION, GENDER AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AMONGST PAKISTANIS IN AUSTRALIA BY NADEEM MALIK ; TRANSFORMING RITUALS ; 9. CHAINS OF MIGRANTS: CULTURE, VALUE AND THE HOUSING MARKET BY PNINA WERBNER ; 10. MIGRATION: RITUAL ATTRITION OR INCREASED FLEXIBILITY? A CASE STUDY OF PAKISTANI FUNERALS IN NORWAY BY CORA ALEXA DOVING ; 11. CONTESTING MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE: BRITISH-PAKISTANI IDENTITIES, SACRED JOURNEYS TO MAKKAH AND MADINAH, AND THE GLOBAL POSTMODERNISM BY SEAN MCLOUGHLIN ; SHIFTING IDENTITIES ; 12. MULTICULTURALISM, RELIGION AND IDENTITY BY MUNIRA MIRZA ; 13. MULTICULTURALISM, ISLAMAPHOBIA AND THE CITY BY TAHIR ABBAS ; 14. A SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON PAKISTANIS IN THE NETHERLANDS BY WAQAS BUTT ; 15. PAKISTANIS IN THE UNITED STATES: FROM INTEGRATION TO ALIENATION? BY AMINAH MOHAMMAD ARIF ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

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Dr Virinder S. Kalra is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He has written extensively on the South Asian diaspora and his doctoral work focused on a group of Kashmiris who had migrated to the U.K. He was co-editor of the book A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain

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