Dr. Sanaa Alimia é uma cientista política com foco em migração, vigilância e urbanidade. Ela tem um PhD da SOAS, Londres e um MSc da LSE. Antes de ingressar na Universidade Aga Khan, Instituto para o Estudo das Civilizações Muçulmanas (AKU-ISMC), a Dra Alimia foi Pesquisadora no Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlim (2016-2019) e recebeu o Prêmio COFUND Dahlem de Pesquisa, na Freie Universität e no Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlim (2014-2016). Foi professora assistente visitante no Departamento de Ciência Política da Universidade de Peshawar (2013-2016) e Senior Teaching Fellow no Departamento de Política e Estudos Internacionais, SOAS (2011-2014).
A Dra. Alimia é autora de um próximo manuscrito (2021/2022), "A Questão Afegã", University of Pennsylvania Press.
Sua pesquisa atual se concentra na vigilância, governança e migração.
Dra. Sanaa Alimia: Since my time in Germany in 2014, as a so-called academic expert on Afghan migration, I have constantly been writing letters, supporting cases for asylum, petitioning for Afghan nationals to be not deported and allowed asylum. I was told then Afghanistan is a "safe country" or with "safe parts." I knew that was bullshit then. We knew the Taliban were making inroads then. So now. At least now!! Let people in. Support family reunification. Have some humanity. This is not 1995 all over again. Since 2001, Afghan society has changed. In and outside of the country. In Afghanistan, in the large diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, and now Germany, Europe, Australia, and the countries. The situation for near 20 years has not been of peace. But it has been of hope. A new generation of younger people, confident, critical, and fun. This can only be heartbreaking for them. Pakistan has a large, beautiful, intelligent, diverse, and human Afghan population. Cities like Peshawar, were built, quite literally, by the hands of Afghan labourers. Karachi's bazars -- your Clifton bazars -- have a large Afghan presence and have done for well over 40 years. Our friends, our neighbours, our family. These cities and its ordinary people within it will feel the pain and concerns of what is happening in Afghanistan. They always have. Try, friends, to put pressure on the government -- and multiple governments. Try people, to change the narrative. Resist those who blame "refugees." Take responsibility for our governments failings (yes, even in Diaspora, I say our.) Take responsibility for our failings. May God protect the people of Afghanistan. May we all hang our heads in shame at the failures, hypocrisy, and duplicity of those military powers, states, corporations that have allowed this situation to occur again. Quick note: the Mujahidin of 1980s didn't just morph into Taliban. I worked with plenty of ordinary former Mujahidin members - office clerks, translators, & people who fought - who were anti-Taliban, critical of US war, & living ordinary lives in Pakistan.
1. Khadija Abbasi https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/there-death-immobility-identification-process-transnational-young-hazaras
2. Shahram Khosravi (many to choose from), start with: “Deportation as a Way of Life for Young Afghans,” 2016. shorturl.at/atNOS
3. Anila Daulatzai (everything) including: " The discursive occupation of Afghanistan." https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20455619
4. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (everything), including historical analysis + contemporary commentary on Afghanistan.
https://www.jmu.edu/history/people/all-people/hanifi.shtml
5. James Caron (lots to choose from) "Reading the power of printed orality in Afghanistan."
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff77535.php
6. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, "Art, Geopolitics, and Gendering Afghanistan." https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/journal/2017/4/18/art-geopolitics-and-gendering-in-afghanistan-part-1
7. Jawan Shir Rasikh - amazing historical work https://upenn.academia.edu/JawanShirRasikh
8. Ayesha Khan: “Afghan Refugee Women's Experience of Conflict and Disintegration,” Meridians, 3: 1 (2002), 89-121.
9. Nichola Khan: 'From refugees to the world stage': Sport, civilisation and modernity in Out of the Ashes and the UK Afghan diaspora
10. Timothy Nunan Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
11. Sab Gul Khattak https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/510158
12. Martin Sökefeld. "Nations Rebound: German Politics of Deporting Afghans." International Quarterly for Asian Studies. 50: 1-2, pp. 91-118.
13. Alessandro Monsutti (everything), including seminal: War and Migration: Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazāras of Afghanistan. London: Routledge. 2005.
14. Zusanna Olszewska (so much!) https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-zuzanna-olszewska#tab-267761
15. Elaheh Rostami-Povey
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff57863.php
16. Julie Billaud https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15342.html
17. Orzala Nemat Ashraf https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23663/1/Nemat_4163.pdf
18. Wazhmah Osman 'Television and the Afghan Culture Wars https://press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/29bgf5br9780252043550.html
19. Aziz A Hakimi's (everything) including: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02757206.2020.1865342
20. Kaweh Kerami (upcoming!) https://theconversation.com/afghanistan-failure-of-us-taliban-peace-talks-looms-over-elections-123713