CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Razaque, Symrun |
|---|---|
| Title | Daily life oppressions faced by Afghan Refugee Women in Pakistan and the Role of the State |
| Summary | The daily life oppressions faced by Afghan refugee women in Pakistan are co-constitutive of intersectional elements like race, gender and coloniality manifested through structural violence. Using in-depth interviews with Afghan refugee women this study looks at the complicity of the state of Pakistan in perpetrating oppression against the refugee groups. This research questions the complicity of the state in perpetrating intersecting elements of violence such as race, gender and coloniality. It asks how these intersecting elements are co-constitutive of structural violence. It looks at the current experiences of Afghan refugee women in the years succeeding the wave of repatriation that began in 2023. The thematic analysis revealed different forms of violence that Afghan refugee women face and negotiate under the modern-nation state of Pakistan. It foregrounds Johan Galtung’s theory of Structural Violence and applies a decolonial feminist reading to this seminal work to expose the existing power relations in Pakistan that marginalize and exclude Afghan women from decision-making processes, access to basic facilities and exercise of their fundamental rights. |
| Supervisor | Sachseder, Julia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/razaque_symrun.pdf |
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