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Beyond ‘Belonging’: How Categorization Shapes the Perception of Afghan Refugees in India

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: CSAMES
Virtual
Date: Jan 31, 2023 12:00 1.00 PM
Speaker: Asha Sawhney, PhD student of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Registration: Registration
Contact: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
E-Mail: csames@illinois.edu
Phone: 217-265-5016
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Originating Calendar: CSAMES events; Afghan refugees living in India have traditionally been studied through a limited lens provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). To measure assimilation into Indian society, the UNHCR bifurcates a religiously diverse population into “ethnic" Afghans (those born Muslim) and "non-ethnic" Afghans (born Sikh or Hindu). In this project, new ethnographic methods are explored to challenge the methodological nationalism of this binary, paving the way for “global assimilation” as a new articulation of Afghan refugee aspirations.

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