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SUMMARY:From making the "Refugee City" to being ethnically cleansed from i
 t?
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260603T170000
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DESCRIPTION:Sanaa Alimia reflects on fifteen years of research on refugee 
 displacement in urban contexts\, including both what she got “right” a
 nd what she may have missed. Using Afghan refugees in Pakistan as a case s
 tudy\, she shows how long-term residents who helped build cities with thei
 r own hands can nonetheless be violently expelled from them.\n\nMoving bey
 ond camp-centric and humanitarian perspectives\, Alimia's work highlights 
 refugees as active makers of urban life – the Refugee City. Yet\, in the
  post-9/11 era\, state policies have shifted from strategic incorporation 
 to securitized abandonment\, unleashing violent mass deportation campaigns
 . These\, she suggests\, resemble ethnic cleansing: racialized projects of
  forced population transfer enabled by a permissive global right-wing orde
 r.\n\nThe Afghan case compels us to ask: how are migrant populations trans
 formed into permanent security threats\, and how do 'host' societies becom
 e hostile homelands?
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T095723Z
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1\, Seminar Room 1 Queen Eli
 zabeth House 4 Mansfield Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3TB United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Associate Professor Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan University)
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