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

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

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 72 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet

Erschienen in
BICC Working Paper ; Bd. 2/2018

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2018
Urheber
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61301-9
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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