عنوان

A study on mobility: Pakistani-origin Muslim youth in higher education

Number

TL49060

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

A study on mobility: Pakistani-origin Muslim youth in higher education

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mariam Durrani

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Agha, Asif; Wortham, Stanton E.F.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

204

Text of Note

Committee members: Inoue, Miyako; Jackson, John L.; Reyes, Angela

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-33867-6

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Anthropology

Body granting the degree

University of Pennsylvania

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

My dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography that investigates the gendered lifeworlds of transnational Pakistani-origin, Muslim college students in New York City and in Lahore, Pakistan. My ethnographic approach follows the multiple and overlapping mobility trajectories of transnational youth as marked by particular, semiotic practices and narratives. During the 16 months of fieldwork, my focal fieldsites-the hallways, dorms, student club- rooms, cafeterias, and libraries at two comparable college campuses-provided the interactional spaces where I could observe students developing their social and cultural selves. In my research, I found that the rural to urban migration pattern and concomitant imaginaries remained significant for both intra- and inter-national movements. My research examined students' narratives about these multiscalar mobilities, analyzing emergent and locale-specific discursive and embodied practices in relation to transnational and piety-based markers of belonging. In this, I found that these practices both reified and critiqued traditional and modern notions of patriarchy. My study shows that mobility offers an ideal construct to ethnographically observe Pakistani-origin Muslim youth subject-making and to understand how transnational youth re-fashion their social identities and professional aspirations given contemporary post-9/11 political and social climate.

Cultural anthropology; Education; South Asian Studies; Higher education

Subject Term

Social sciences;Education;Mobility;Muslim youth;Pakistan;Semiotic anthropology;South Asian youth;Transnational ethnography

Pinkert, Melanie Terner

Agha, Asif; Wortham, Stanton E.F.

Subdivision

Anthropology

University of Pennsylvania

Call Number

1845867458; 10190313

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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