Migration and small towns in Pakistan
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Migration and small towns in Pakistan
Oxford University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The book describes the political, geographical and ecological context within which migrations to and from Pakistan have taken place. These include migrations from India because of the establishment of the canal colonies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and because of the Kashmir Wars and from Afghanistan and Bangladesh in the 70's and 80's. The scale of rural-urban migration and emigration has also been dealt with along with its history, causes,
repercussions (social, physical, economic and demographic both in the rural areas and in the small towns) and processes (both legal and illegal) and their actors such as emigrant organizations, state and private agencies and illegal operators. The book also deals with the effect of remittances on Pakistan's
macro economy and the response of the state to the emigration phenomena along with the evolution of small towns in general and of Mithi, Uch and Chiniot in particular. The relationship between political power, land ownership, urban form and development in these three towns has also been researched and analysed. The text is supported by a number of boxes, statistical tables, maps and interviews of the actors in the migration and emigration drama.
Table of Contents
- ABBREVIATIONS
- LOCAL TERMS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE PAKISTAN CONTEXT
- THE GEOGRAPHIC SETTING AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIOLOGY AND MIGRATION
- 2. MIGRATION TO PAKISTAN
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUNJAB CANAL COLONIES
- THE 1947 MIGRATION FROM INDIA
- MIGRATION AS A RESULT OF THE INDO-PAKISTAN WARS
- MIGRATION AS A RESULT OF THE AFGHAN CONFLICT
- BENGALIS AND BURMEES MIGRATION
- SOME ISSUES
- 3. RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION
- SCALE OF MIGRATION
- CAUSES OF MIGRATION
- PROCESS OF MIGRATION
- PHYSICAL IMPACT OF MIGRATION
- SOCIAL IMPACT
- THE POLITICAL IMPACT
- 4. EMIGRATION
- CAUSES OF EMIGRATION
- SCALE AND DESTINATION
- REMITTANCES AND THEIR IMPACT ON PAKISTAN'S ECONOMY
- THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF REMITTANCES
- ROLE OF EMIGRANT ORGANISATIONS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN
- EMIGRATION AND REMITTANCE PROCESSES
- THE RESPONSE OF THE STATE
- 5. SMALL TOWNS IN PAKISTAN
- SMALL INDUS VALLEY TOWNS IN HISTORY
- DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND SMALL TOWNS
- 6. THREE SMALL TOWNS
- CHOICE OF TOWNS
- REASONS FOR THE CHOICE
- MITHI
- UCH
- CHINIOT
- 7. BROAD CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
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