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Karachi & COVID‐19: Testing, Kinship & illness

Karachi & COVID‐19: Testing, Kinship & illness Sanaullah Khan, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University In the past decades Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan, has experienced massive demographic transformations. The inflow of migrants during the rapid industrialization in the city during the 1970s, and the creation of colonies along ethnic lines to accommodate workers from around the country led to the intensification of rivalries between them. This was followed by the intensification of militancy, especially after the 1980s, when ammunition to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan entered the Karachi port and was smuggled to various militant groups (Gayer 2014). While groups continue to have bitter rivalries, they also forge relations of exchange and interdependence (Ali 2012). One avenue of such an exchange is provided by marriage as it continues to take place across ethnicities in low and medium-income households, except for a few affluent clans as will be shown in the article. Marriage takes place across ethnicity and is usually based more or less on similar class backgrounds due to educational institutions and neighborhoods providing avenues for interaction for lower-middle class populations. The experience of illness animates many of these intimacies and hostilities within the household, the seeds for which may be sowed by marriage http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Karachi & COVID‐19: Testing, Kinship & illness

Khan, Sanaullah
City & Society , Volume 32 (3) – Dec 1, 2020
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Sanaullah Khan, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University In the past decades Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan, has experienced massive demographic transformations. The inflow of migrants during the rapid industrialization in the city during the 1970s, and the creation of colonies along ethnic lines to accommodate workers from around the country led to the intensification of rivalries between them. This was followed by the intensification of militancy, especially after the 1980s, when ammunition to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan entered the Karachi port and was smuggled to various militant groups (Gayer 2014). While groups continue to have bitter rivalries, they also forge relations of exchange and interdependence (Ali 2012). One avenue of such an exchange is provided by marriage as it continues to take place across ethnicities in low and medium-income households, except for a few affluent clans as will be shown in the article. Marriage takes place across ethnicity and is usually based more or less on similar class backgrounds due to educational institutions and neighborhoods providing avenues for interaction for lower-middle class populations. The experience of illness animates many of these intimacies and hostilities within the household, the seeds for which may be sowed by marriage

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