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Demographic Reporting on Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Nancy Hatch Dupree
Affiliation:
Duke University

Extract

After seven years, the care-and-maintenance network sustaining an estimated three million plus Afghan refugees in Pakistan functions with remarkable efficiency. There have been no epidemics, no starvation, little malnutrition because of insufficient intake of food, and no major outbreaks of violence.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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2 Officially entitled by the GOP. Many families (an estimated 60%) have constructed mud-brick housing, but the RTV designation emphasizes the assumed temporary status of the refugees which is politically important.

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6 The term ‘migratory genocide’ was first used by Dupree, L. in ‘First Anniversary of Afghan Invasion,’ Los Angeles Times (29 December 1980).Google Scholar

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