CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Najeeb, Zainab |
|---|---|
| Title | The Politics of Displacement-The Question of Internally Displaced Women in Pakistan, Undocumented Loss and Binding Custom |
| Summary | After the military operation “Zarb-e-Azb displaced approximately 1.6 million Pashtun people from the localities of FATA, Pakistan has been facing an unprecedented volume of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who require resettlement. Within this group, the most vulnerable are Pashtun female IDPs for which gendered experiences are unaccounted and largely undocumented. What makes this case exceedingly complex is FATA’s long history and marginalization as an extra-judicial spatial category, residing outside the constitutional realm of Pakistan, under the draconian colonial laws of Frontier Crimes Regulation. With the merger of FATA in 2018 with the neighboring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa despite the ongoing IDP crisis and a rising social movement considered to be anti-state, the voices of women are still lost in the chaos. In order to critically engage with the absence of women from repatriation policies and future political outcomes, I will draw upon Giorgio Agamben’s idea of “State of Exception,” to contextualize FATA’s politico-social status, and his work Homo Sacer, to demonstrate how the double exclusion of women from public spaces and decision-making forums is validated by state policies and archaic customs which in turn makes them more vulnerable as IDPs. For this purpose, I will be analyzing literature from migration studies, journalistic accounts and self-conducted interviews to create an account of gendered displacement, connected with changing political landscape in Pakistan. |
| Supervisor | Jones-Gailani, Nadia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/najeeb_zainab.pdf |
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