This is the first video in a country case study series looking at migration in Pakistan. This first video covers the history of migration in Pakistan from migration in the pre-partition period to modern day.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:11 1885-1940 Canal Migration
3:06 1947 Partition
4:43 1971 Independence of Bangladesh
5:56 1980s Mass Afghan Migration to Pakistan
7:03 1970s Migration to GCC Countries
8:36 Migration to Europe
11:11 Migration to the Nordic Countries
12:11 Migration to North America
15:48 Conclusion
*Thank you to Kevin O'Dell and Nasrat Sayed for helpful assistance with this video.
Selected References:
BBC. (2018, December 6). The Partition of India: What happened? BBC. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Fatima, N. (2018). The Pakistani Diaspora in North America. CIMRAD Working Paper No. 02-18. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
IOM. (2019). Pakistan Migration Snapshot. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Shah, N.M., Hameed, M., Amjad, R., & Shahzad, A. (2020). Pakistan Migration Report. Centre on International Migration, Remittances and Diaspora (CIMRAD) Lahore School of Economics. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Statistics Canada. (2019b). Data tables, 2016 Census. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]=
Statistics Norway. (2020). Immigration, emigration and net migration, by country of emigration/immigration 1967 – 2019. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
United States Census Bureau. (2019). ASIAN ALONE OR IN ANY COMBINATION BY SELECTED GROUPS. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Walsh, P.W. (2020). Asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK. The Migration Observatory. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
West Punjab map: [ Ссылка ]
Additional Reading
Abbas, M. (2020, November 22). Four migrations: A look back at Punjab’s four migrations since 1885. The News. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Ali, I. (2014). The Punjab under imperialism, 1885-1947. Princeton University Press.
Basraa, M. (2019). Annual Analysis of Manpower Export. BEOE. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
BEOE (Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment) (2020). Emigration Statistics of Pakistan: Occupational Group Wise Emigrations. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Chaudhary, S. N., Ansari, F., Grill, J., Paul, N., Pear, J., & Sattar, Z. (2021). THE TIES THAT BIND A Study of Pakistani American Connectivity & Giving to Pakistan. American Pakistan Foundation. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Eurostat. (2016). Record number of over 1.2 million first time asylum seekers registered in 2015. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Gazdar, H. (2003). A review of migration issues in Pakistan. Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, Bangladesh, DFID.
Grare, F., & Maley, W. (2011). The afghan refugees in Pakistan. J Middle East Institute. Refugees Cooperation.
Jhawar, A., & Gupta, C. (2019). Migration Analysis of India-Pakistan Division of 1947. University of Gothenberg.
Moore, K.M. (2011) ‘Pakistani Immigrants’, in R.H. Bayor (ed.) Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans, Volume 1, Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Pew Research Center. (n.d). Asian Americans: FACT SHEETS ON ASIANS IN THE U.S: Pakistanis. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Rafe, R. (2019). The neglected 'Bihari' community in Bangladesh. DW. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Statistics Canada. (2019a). Immigrant population by selected places of birth, admission category and period of immigration. 2016 Census. Retrieved from [ Ссылка ]
Yousef, K. (2013). The vicious circle of irregular migration from Pakistan to Greece and back to Pakistan. IRMA research project, background report on Pakistan, ELIAMEP, Athens (Available in English and Greek from: [ Ссылка ]. eliamep. gr/publications/).
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