Interconnected & Multiple Crisis: Gendered Displacement & Cross-Border Migration Across Afghanistan & Pakistan
A presentation delivered at IMISCOE Spring Conference 2024. The history of Afghanistan & Pakistan has shared ongoing socio-political instability, armed conflicts, environmental catastrophes and economic crises. Almost 2 million Afghan live in Pakistan. Between 2002 and 2021, over 5 million refugees returned home, while nearly 3.5 million Afghans are presently internally displaced. Data were collected through surveys and interviews conducted in Afghanistan and Pakistan with internally displaced and cross cross-border migrant men and women, some of whom had fled the previous Taliban regime, and with returnees in Afghanistan from the neighbouring countries (Iran and Pakistan). Hence individuals and families may have been forced to migrate and resettle multiple times whilst coping with precarious statuses.