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Journal articles on the topic "Afghan Diaspora"

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Green, Nile. "Tribe, Diaspora, and Sainthood in Afghan History." Journal of Asian Studies 67, no. 1 (February 2008): 171–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911808000065.

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Before the founding of the state of Afghanistan in the eighteenth century, the main centers of political and cultural gravity for the Pashtuns lay in India, where numerous Pashtuns migrated in pursuit of commerce and soldiery. Amid the cosmopolitan pressures of India and its alternative models of self-knowledge and affiliation, Pashtun elites elaborated a distinct idiom of “Afghan” identity. With the Afghans' absorption into the Mughal Empire, earlier patterns of accommodation to the Indian environment were overturned through the writing of history, whereby the Afghan past and present were carefully mapped through the organizing principle of genealogy. While the Afghan religious world was being reshaped by the impact of empire, in response, tales of expressly Afghan saints served to tribalize the ties of Islam. With the decline of Mughal power, the collective “Afghan” identity of the diaspora was transmitted to the new Afghan state, where the relationship of this tribal template of Afghan authenticity to the non-Pashtun peoples of Afghanistan remains the defining controversy of national identity.
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Sadat, Mir Hekmatullah. "HyphenatingAfghaniyat(Afghan-ness) in the Afghan Diaspora." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 28, no. 3 (December 2008): 329–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602000802547898.

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Syed Kaleem Ullah and Inam Ullah Leghari. "Exploring Transnational Marriages among Afghan Refugees in Quetta, Balochistan – Social Forces and Cultural Dynamics." sjesr 3, no. 4 (December 25, 2020): 297–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/sjesr-vol3-iss4-2020(297-304).

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Building on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative techniques, this paper attempts to explore the mechanisms through which refugee populations maintain distinct identities through marriages as a cultural process. An examination of the cultural factors determining marriage choices among Afghan refugees in Quetta reveals how the Afghan diaspora maintains social links between the host and the home country. The cultural practices specific to Afghan refugees describe how cultural forces negotiate the demands of assimilation from the host country while maintaining distinct identities as a diaspora. These practices are framed in the debate about the place of refugees in studies on transnationalism. It comments on how social and cultural factors are equally important in determining the behavior of and towards refugees, contrasting the economic and political focus of most work done on the subject. The current study of Afghan refugees' marriage preference highlights the dynamic nature of notions about migration, imagined Diasporas, and continued connection to homeland even after generations of exile in the host country which is Pakistan.
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Saidi, Saideh. "Migration and Redefining Self." Anthropology of the Middle East 14, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ame.2019.140206.

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This article explores how Afghan (Hazara) women negotiate and sift their religious understandings and identities over time after migrating to Germany. Migration experiences and exposure to German society has impacted their self-narration and conceptualisation of cultural change in their own identity. This ethnographic research illustrates the notion of acceptance or rejection to change among Hazara immigrant women in their lived religion in diaspora. Based on my fieldwork, three different trajectories along religious lines occur in the Afghan diaspora: a group of immigrants, enhancing Islamic values, whose relationship to and involvement in religion intensified and increased; the second group largely consider themselves secular Muslims trying to fully indulge into the new society; the third group has an elastic religious identity, blending Islamic values with Western-inspired lifestyles.
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Hassan, Mehdia. "Wounds: Commemorative Tattoos, Collective Trauma, and the Afghan-Canadian Identity." in:cite journal 3 (August 31, 2020): 34–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/incite.3.34718.

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The painting Wounds reimagines how nonwhite and “vulnerable” bodies are expected to exist in society. Inspired by The Tattoo Project and how commemorative tattoos meaningfully integrate love and loss into “good grief” (Davidson, 2016), the painting re-imagines commemorative tattoos as wounds that result from collective and intergenerational trauma. The painting Wounds uses a social justice lens to depict how traumatic histories can be embodied in the cultural identities of future generations of the Afghan diaspora and how tattoos materialize these memories. I demonstrate this by critically analyzing my lived experience of my cultural identity. This collective trauma is so strongly embedded into my ancestors’ collective identities as Afghans, that I also see the traumatic history to be part of who I am. This autobiographical artwork and accompanying critical analysis allow for the reclamation of my Afghan cultural identity by resisting Western pressures to conform. In being vulnerable about my past, I redefine vulnerability. I remember and honour the courage, sacrifice, and resilience of my Afghan ancestors who have endured violence and wars; which has contributed to the formation of my hyphenated, Afghan-Canadian identity. I recognize that the Afghan-Canadian identity is multidimensional, multi-faceted, and incredibly nuanced. My own experiences of my Afghan-Canadian identity deeply inform and enrich this critical analysis. In this critical analysis, I am by no means generalizing the experiences of Afghan-Canadians, as every individual’s experience is valid and distinct The three commemorative tattoos depict the Canadian maple leaf, my name “Mehdia” written in Persian, and the geographical shape of Afghanistan. The painting reimagines and redefines what it means to collectively heal, both literally and figuratively. It questions whether healing is still necessary because it implies that wounds disappear, and with them, the disappearance of deep social histories that construct my Afghan-Canadian identity. Using my original painting as an arts-integrated method of inquiry, I offer a multidisciplinary portrayal of how memory is materialized on the body. This written analysis and painting creatively and critically articulate the strength and beauty that comes with vulnerability when historical and cultural wounds are resurfaced. This work further provokes deeper discussion and dialogue about the need to make meaning of the collective trauma that is ingrained within one’s cultural identity.
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Farooq, Gowhar. "Connecting with Homeland: Media Consumption of Afghan Diaspora in India." International Journal of Communication and Media Science 8, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.14445/2349641x/ijcms-v8i2p101.

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Rytter, Mikkel, and Andreas G. Nielsen. "Marriage in the ruins of war: Intergenerational hauntings in the Afghan diaspora." Ethnicities 20, no. 5 (December 30, 2019): 983–1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796819896100.

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Marriage is a central life event and vital conjuncture in which the life trajectories and histories of two individuals and their respective families intersect. When the upcoming generation of Afghan refugees residing in Denmark marry, they often realise that the conflict, war and atrocities of the past seem to reappear and are expressed in different ways within and between the families. In this respect, Afghan families are haunted by the past. In this article, partner choice and marriage are used as prisms through which to explore how turbulent pasts and possible futures are articulated, negotiated and contested in the context of migration. Furthermore, the concept of ‘everyday diplomacy’ is suggested as a way to grasp how families negotiate who they are and where they come from. An ability and willingness to articulate new identities and place/perspectives might become a way to deal with the ghosts of memory and hauntings from the past.
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Weinreich, Matthias, and Mikhail Pelevin. "The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment." Iran and the Caucasus 16, no. 1 (2012): 45–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/160984912x13309560274055.

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AbstractThe second half of the 1990s saw the emergence of a new, distinctive type of Afghan poetry, the Taliban tarana performed in Pashto by one or more vocalists without instrumental accompaniment and characterised by the melodic modes of local folk music. Over the last fifteen years the tarana chants have gained wide distribution within Afghanistan and Pashto speaking parts of Pakistan, as well as among the Pashtun diaspora. Considering their unambiguous ideological status and their immense popularity within the country of origin they can be regarded as the signature tune of the Afghan insurgency. The present article, which focuses on the literary roots of these songs, attempts to demonstrate that their authors are following century old patterns of Pashto oral and written poetry while adopting traditional material to the needs and the milieu of contemporary Afghan society. The publication is supplemented by a transcription and English translation of five tarana chants.
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Zabihzadeh, Seyedeh Robabeh. "Engendered Violence Against Afghan Women in Atiq Rahimi’s A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear." English Language and Literature Studies 10, no. 2 (April 27, 2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v10n2p57.

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The universal concern of domestic violence against women in its various manifestations came to the center of scholarly attention due to its harmful effects and consequences on the lives of thousands of women worldwide. This umbrella term that refers to any form of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse against women is the result of gender-based power imbalance and sexist inequalities in societies where patriarchal norms hold sway. However, the enormity and severity of the problem is more profound in third-world countries where governing policies are determined by traditional and religious doctrines. Afghanistan is one such third-world country where woman’s oppression and abuse originate from the reigning religious principles that dominate its culture, society and politics. Nevertheless, there is a recent trend among literary figures of the Afghan Diaspora in highlighting the plight of Afghan women in Afghanistan through the medium of fiction. This paper therefore intends to investigate the manifestations of domestic violence against women in the Afghan context through a reading of Atiq Rahim’s novella, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (2007). Rahimi’s novella narrates the story of a male protagonist named Farhad and simultaneously highlights the miserable living conditions of the Afghan people, particularly the lives of Afghan women during the turbulent period of the Soviet Invasion as well as the many internal political upheavals that followed soon after. Using feminist literary criticism, the present paper shall discuss the depictions of three prominent forms of domestic violence against women as experienced by the female characters in the novella, namely physical, sexual and psychological violence that have shaped them into oppressed, silenced and traumatized individuals.
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İçduygu, Ahmet, and Sibel Karadağ. "Afghan migration through Turkey to Europe: seeking refuge, forming diaspora, and becoming citizens." Turkish Studies 19, no. 3 (March 23, 2018): 482–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2018.1454317.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Afghan Diaspora"

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Akkoor, Chitra Venkatesh. "Ways of speaking in the diaspora: Afghan Hindus in Germany." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/915.

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In this ethnographic study, I sought to understand the diasporic lives of Afghan Hindus by studying how they discursively constructed their migration and settlement in Germany. By directing attention to their ways of speaking about migration I understood the importance of community and family to the Afghan Hindu way of life, and how the cultural premises of homeland an integral part of their relationships in the diaspora. Speech codes theory is the primary theoretical framework for this ethnographic study. Research was conducted over four separate visits to Germany lasting from four to ten weeks, beginning in summer of 2005 and ending in December 2008, proceeding in phases. Primary methods used were, participation observation, and in-depth interviews. Sites of research included Afghan Hindu temples and family events. The main indigenous term used to describe migration was bikharna, which captured spatial dispersal, relational fragmentation, and loss of traditions. The Afghan Hindu meaning of community was premised on physical proximity and relational connection among Afghan Hindus. The changing meaning of family from the multi-member, multi-generational household of Afghanistan to Western ideas of the nuclear family also figured prominently in ways of speaking about migration. Cultural premises of the homeland continued to inform life in Germany, but were also increasingly being challenged by lifestyle choices of some Afghan Hindus. The temple in Afghan Hindu diasporic lives emerged as an important place, in discursive constructions of community. What was once a place of worship in the homeland was constructed in the diaspora as a place that could bring the fragmented community together. However, the temple was also contested space, as different groups of people within the speech community had different perspectives on its importance in Afghan Hindu lives. This study has implications for the study of culture, communication and relationships in the context of diaspora. Ethnography of communication offers an ideal theoretical framework in which to understand diasporic experiences, by examining the underlying rules and premises of everyday lives of diasporic people. As a case study of a refugee diaspora, this study also has implications for scholarship on South Asian diasporas.
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Baden, John Kenneth. "Through Disconnection and Revival: Afghan American Relations with Afghanistan, 1890-2016." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1530504934458712.

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Zafar, Morwari. "COIN-operated anthropology : cultural knowledge, American counterinsurgency and the rise of the Afghan diaspora." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f0b8e443-4038-4f95-832b-13034a43f8d6.

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This thesis explores the encounter between the Afghan-American community and the U.S. military-industrial complex in the production of cultural knowledge for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Afghanistan. It focuses on the narratives mobilized as 'expertise' by Afghan-American contractors from the major diaspora hubs in California and Virginia, who were employed as role-players, translators, and cultural advisors by the U.S. military and defense contractors. I discuss how such narratives gained currency and shaped the perceptions of Afghanistan in the U.S. foreign and security policy communities. The goal of the thesis is to demonstrate the extent to which COIN-centered cultural knowledge production both defined political strategies toward Afghanistan and also reconstituted the Afghan diaspora in America. The thesis contributes to emergent ethnographic studies on militarism by looking at its effect on American society in general and the Afghan diaspora in particular. The broader application of the thesis findings is to move beyond critiques of the troubled connection between anthropology and the military, and to analyze the relationship between citizens and the state in terms of national and biopolitical security.
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Fischer, Carolin. "Relations and agency in a transnational context : the Afghan diaspora and its engagements for change in Afghanistan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:77d0ecf1-5f8d-4ad7-a5fa-1a5378c90940.

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This thesis is about the lives and civic engagements of Afghans in Germany and the UK. It shows how Afghans living in these two countries relate to Afghanistan, and to what extent they engage in transnational action aimed at promoting change there. In particular, it explores the emergence of diasporic communities and how members exercise agency as development actors in Afghanistan. The research rests on a qualitative case study conducted among Afghan populations in Germany and the UK. Semi-structured interviews and participant observation were primary methods of data collection. Relational sociology is used to capture emerging social identities, patterns of social organisation and forms of social engagement. A first notable finding is that Afghan populations abroad are fractured and cannot be seen as a united diaspora. People tend to coalesce in narrowly defined subgroups rather than under a shared national identity. Second, Afghanistan remains a crucial reference point, notwithstanding fragmented social organisation. Home country attachments tend to be tied to a desire for change and development in the country. Third, despite these shared concerns, transnational engagements are typically carried out by small groups and directed towards confined social spheres. Although people may take action in the name of an imagined Afghan community or an imaginary Afghanistan, this imagined community does not provide a basis for social mobilisation. Thus Afghans do not act as a cohesive diaspora. Fourth, transnational engagements are often a response to the specificities of the social environments in which people are embedded, notably their host countries. The findings show that a relational approach can specify how different dimensions of people’s social identities drive social action and are shaped in interaction with various elements of their social context. Such an actor-centred perspective helps to improve our understanding of how members of diasporas come to engage with their countries of origin.
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Wiking, Holmlander Tuva. "Reflexive Material Identities : The Sartorial Practices of Ten Young Afghan Male Migrants in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183292.

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Siddiqi, Ahmad Mujtaba. "From bilateralism to Cold War conflict : Pakistan's engagement with state and non-state actors on its Afghan frontier, 1947-1989." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e904bd42-76e9-4c73-8414-dbd7049eb30f.

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The purpose of this thesis is to assess Pakistan’s relationship with Afghanistan before and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. I argue that the nature of the relationship was transformed by the region becoming the centre of Cold War conflict, and show how Pakistan’s role affected the development of the mujahidin insurgency against Soviet occupation. My inquiry begins by assessing the historical determinants of the relationship, arising from the colonial legacy and local interpretations of the contested spheres of legitimacy proffered by state, tribe and Islam. I then map the trajectory of the relationship from Pakistan’s independence in 1947, showing how the retreat of great power rivalry following British withdrawal from the subcontinent allowed for the framing of the relationship in primarily bilateral terms. The ascendance of bilateral factors opened greater possibilities for accommodation than had previously existed, though the relationship struggled to free itself of inherited colonial disputes, represented by the Pashtunistan issue. The most promising attempt to resolve the dispute came to an end with the communist coup and subsequent Soviet invasion, which subsumed bilateral concerns under the framework of Cold War confrontation. Viewing the invasion as a major threat, Pakistan pursued negotiations for Soviet withdrawal, aligned itself with the US and gave clandestine support to the mujahidin insurgency. External support enhanced mujahidin military viability while exacerbating weaknesses in political organization and ideology. Soviet withdrawal in 1989 left an unresolved conflict. Faced with state collapse and turmoil across the border, heightened security concerns following loss of US support, and intensified links among non-state actors on both sides of the frontier, the Pakistan government drew on its recently gained experience of working through non-state actors to attempt to maintain its influence in Afghanistan. There would be no return to the relatively stable state-state ties prevailing before 1979.
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Books on the topic "Afghan Diaspora"

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Langary, Sayid Sattar. Women from Afghanistan in diaspora: Their stories of adversities, freedom, and success. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010.

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Beyond the wild tribes: Understanding modern Afghanistan and its diaspora. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Afghan Diaspora"

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Fischer, Carolin. "Afghan Diasporas in Britain and Germany: Dynamics, Engagements and Agency." In Diaspora Engagement and Development in South Asia, 56–74. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137334459_4.

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Yacoobi, Sakena. "Women Educating Women in the Afghan Diaspora: Why and How." In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women, 229–35. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230107380_20.

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Green, Nile. "Tribe, Diaspora, and Sainthood in Indo-Afghan History." In Making Space, 65–115. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198077961.003.0017.

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"Can the Afghan Diaspora Speak? Diasporic Identity in the Shadow of Human Rights." In Globalization and “Minority” Cultures, 109–21. Brill | Nijhoff, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004282087_008.

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"‘From refugees to the world stage’: Sport, civilisation and modernity in Out of the Ashes and the UK Afghan diaspora." In Sport and South Asian Diasporas, 71–86. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315774398-11.

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"Exploring the Dynamics of Diaspora Formation among Afghans in Germany." In Dismantling Diasporas, 155–70. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315577586-16.

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"Communication for development and public diplomacy: insights from an Afghan radio drama." In Diasporas and Diplomacy, 211–28. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203125151-20.

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Rostami-Povey, Elaheh. "Afghan Women’s Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities." In Arab Feminisms. I.B.Tauris, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755607426.ch-020.

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