CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Cheema, Mohammad Ahsan |
|---|---|
| Title | Uprootedness and Groupness of educational migrants amidst ethnic violence: a case study of the Baloch students in Lahore |
| Summary | This project is aimed at understanding the dynamics of the individuals who migrate for social mobility to a perceived enemy territory amidst violent ethnic secessionist struggle. The project embarks on asking three questions, do those who migrate for social mobility internally feel uprooted from their past-self and alienated from their present-self? Secondly, Do the choices of those who migrate for social mobility internally assimilate them either into their past-self or their present self? Lastly, do those who migrate for social mobility internally respond to the conferral properties/identities associated with them with respect to their own sense of ethnic identity? A case study was taken of the Baloch students migrating to Lahore for educational purposes and grounded theory was used to reach a theoretical framework to describe the situation of individuals stuck between two hegemonic narratives. In total, twelve in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted and later, these interviews were coded as per the framework of grounded theory. In result, a conclusion was reached that individuals had a multi-directional view on their sense of ethnic identity, the categorization of individuals into groups, membership criteria within a group, the definition of the group and the importance of ethnic identity overall in such context. |
| Supervisor | Baubock, Rainer |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/cheema_mohammad.pdf |
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