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

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Abstract: 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 liveli

Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main

Extent: Online-Ressource, 72 S.

Language: Englisch

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Bibliographic citation: BICC Working Paper ; Bd. 2/2018

Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Event: Veröffentlichung

(where): Bonn

(when): 2018

Creator: Grawert, Elke
Mielke, Katja

Contributor: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61301-9

Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.

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

Time of origin

2018

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