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Understanding Afghan migration across different times and contexts

This is recording of a symposium on 'Understanding Afghan migration across different times and contexts' hosted by Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Metropolitan University. 11 May 2023 Dr María López and Prof. Louise Ryan - ‘What are you doing here?’: Narratives of border crossings among diverse Afghans going to the UK at different times Our talk presents findings of our research project on Afghan migration in the UK. We address the narratives of Afghans who arrived in the UK at different times and through different routes. Building on the emerging body of literature that uses ‘journey as a narrative’ and drawing upon our novel dataset, we analyse how diverse migrants tell their stories and present agency, within contexts of extreme hazards, to achieve their imagined future. As well as those evacuated from Kabul airport in 2021, we also interviewed participants who travelled via insecure routes over land and sea often taking months, or even years, and involving expensive people smugglers. Moreover, applying a spatio-temporal lens we advance understanding of the intersection of place and time in how Afghans travelling to the UK, including recent evacuees, are framed differently with resultant consequences for how border crossings are negotiated and narrated. In so doing, we complicate simplistic categories of deserving versus undeserving, genuine versus fraudulent, evacuees versus irregularised migrants. Hameed Hakimi - Exploring inter-diaspora dynamics among Afghans in the West in the aftermath of August 2021 evacuations from Afghanistan Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, much of the Western discourse – both in academia and through mediums such as the media and activistic forums – has centred on the plight of Afghans both inside Afghanistan, especially women, and also those who are on the migration pathway. What is often missed from these discussions is a deeper dive into the evolving nature of inter-diasporic dynamics among the Afghans in the West, including integration, cultural norms and ethnopolitical issues. This presentation attempts to unpack some of these tensions and dynamics and emphasises the need for further critical research. Alexander Ephrussi - Navigating Deportation—Performativity and Materiality among Afghans in Turkey This talk explores practices drawn upon by migrants to avoid apprehension by the police amidst Turkey’s increasing deportation campaigns. It focuses on certain groups of “undocumented” Afghan migrants in Turkey and their use of a set of material, linguistic and embodied practices to navigate the urban landscape of Istanbul and avoid arrest and subsequent deportation. I examine the knowledge production and exchange among migrants, and particularly how it relates to their understanding of their position in Turkey’s highly politicized debate around migration and selective national (dis)belonging, and Turkey’s relations to its neighbouring countries. Dr Ceri Oeppen - The Lived Experience of Displacement and Mutual Support Afghans in Pakistan are one of the largest protracted displacement populations in the world. Based on recent mixed-methods fieldwork amongst Afghans and their neighbours in Haripur, Peshawar, and Chitral, this presentation reflects on the socioeconomic context of recent arrivals of Afghans to Pakistan (since the Taliban takeover of government in 2021). Many of these ‘new arrivals’ have been displaced before, including having previously sought protection in Pakistan. They are arriving in Pakistan and receiving minimal support from the international community, often having to rely on mutual support from co-ethnics who are themselves living precarious lives. This presentation will reflect on the many ways displacement-affected people support each other, as well as the limits to that support. #londonmetresearch #Afghanmigration #migration The Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre is a home for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship that explores migration, diasporas, nations, regions and localities through the lenses of diversity and inequality. londonmet.ac.uk/research londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/global-diversities-and-inequalities-research-centre/