Sanaa Alimia, Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2022, pp. 228, $39.95, ISBN: 978-1-51282286-1

Abstract

The book explores how Pakistan’s changing geopolitics affected Afghans’ livelihoods and their sense of identity and belonging during four decades of violence in Afghanistan through oral histories of Afghan migrants in Karachi and Peshawar, two of Pakistan’s main cities.