Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan
An examination of human history would reveal the critical role that migration and population mobility have played in shaping the fundamental nature of human civilization today. While this may appear to be a natural process, its power to alter the social, political, and economic dynamics of both the sending and host countries, as well as important notions like "citizenship," "identification,"and "belonging,”. Upon the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, millions of Indian refugees and migrants settled in Karachi and other regions of the country, coexisting with the local people. They identified as ‘mohajirs' (migrants) and have since been a part of Pakistan's lengthy process of assimilation into the multiethnic, multilingual Islamic republic. The topic of the research was "Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition: A case study of Daultala, Gujjar Khan”. The main objective of the research was to find out how the local people consider themselves superior to migrants. The research was conducted in Daultalain the tehsil Gujjar Khan of district Rawalpindi. The methodology used in the research was descriptive.The current study was carried out using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods,including questionnaires and interviews with a sample of 45 local respondents selected using a convenient sampling technique living in Daultala, Gujjar Khan.
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Muhajirs (Migrants), Identity Crisis, Cultural Identity, Daultala, Immigration
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(1) Aniqa Zaheer
M.Phil. Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Shagufta Hamid Ali
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
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APA : Zaheer, A., Chaudhry, A. G., & Ali, S. H. (2022). Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan. Global Regional Review, VII(I), 102-109. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2022(VII-I).11
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CHICAGO : Zaheer, Aniqa, Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. 2022. "Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan." Global Regional Review, VII (I): 102-109 doi: 10.31703/grr.2022(VII-I).11
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HARVARD : ZAHEER, A., CHAUDHRY, A. G. & ALI, S. H. 2022. Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan. Global Regional Review, VII, 102-109.
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MHRA : Zaheer, Aniqa, Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. 2022. "Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan." Global Regional Review, VII: 102-109
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MLA : Zaheer, Aniqa, Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. "Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan." Global Regional Review, VII.I (2022): 102-109 Print.
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OXFORD : Zaheer, Aniqa, Chaudhry, Abid Ghafoor, and Ali, Shagufta Hamid (2022), "Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan", Global Regional Review, VII (I), 102-109
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TURABIAN : Zaheer, Aniqa, Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. "Identity Crisis among Migrants after Partition of 1947: A Case Study of Daultala Gujjar Khan." Global Regional Review VII, no. I (2022): 102-109. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2022(VII-I).11