Arbeitspapier | Working paper

Coping with protracted displacement: how Afghans secure their livelihood in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan

This Working Paper addresses the situation of Afghans before, during and after their displacements in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Its aim is: (1) to understand how internally displaced lower-class Afghans, refugees who have returned and Afghan refugees staying in Pakistan and Iran perceive their current living conditions and what activities they pursue towards securing their families' livelihood; (2) to establish the influence of socio-economic class dispositions on the displaced persons' abilities and agency and on the strategic forging of networks in translocal space as a way of securing their livelihood, and (3) to contribute towards elaborating an analytical livelihood approach that can explain agency in protracted displacement situations caused by violent conflict - thereby going beyond established assumptions of migration and conventional refugee studies. The authors Elke Grawert and Katja Mielke elaborate on the significance of translocal networks for Afghans as a livelihood pillar and consider 'established-outsider relations' as enabling condition. The empirical data highlight the difference in livelihood options between lower-and middle-class Afghans.

Coping with protracted displacement: how Afghans secure their livelihood in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan

Urheber*in: Grawert, Elke; Mielke, Katja

Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivates 3.0 Germany

ISSN
2521-781X
Extent
Seite(n): 72
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
BICC Working Paper (2/2018)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Politikwissenschaft
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Migration
Migration
Unterschicht
Afghanistan
Netzwerk
Südasien
Integration
Flüchtling
Iran
Vertreibung
Konflikt
Lebensbedingungen
Nahost
Lebensunterhalt
sozioökonomische Lage
Pakistan
Flüchtlingspolitik

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Grawert, Elke
Mielke, Katja
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
(where)
Deutschland, Bonn
(when)
2018

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61301-9
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Grawert, Elke
  • Mielke, Katja
  • Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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