Social Networks and Migration in Wartime

Drawing on fieldwork in the Herat area, Afghanistan, this book addresses migration patterns throughout three decades of war. It launches a framework for understanding the role of social networks for people's responses to war and disaster as well as mobilizing or maintaining material resources for security and gathering information.

KRISTIAN BERG HARPVIKEN at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He heads the Working Group on the Transnational and International Facets of Civil War within PRIO’s Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW). A sociologist, Harpviken focuses on methodology and on the dynamics of peace and conflict.

Preface	p. vii
Glossary	p. x
Acronyms	p. xii
Maps of Afghanistan in the Region and the Main Fieldwork Area	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Social networks in times of crisis	p. 2
The study of wartime migration	p. 4
Wartime migration in Afghanistan	p. 6
Two villages of Herat	p. 9
Structure	p. 11
Social Networks in Wartime Migration	p. 13
Social networks	p. 14
Flows in networks	p. 19
Network structures	p. 26
Change	p. 38
Conclusion	p. 43
Escape Decisions	p. 46
Security and escape	p. 50
Material resources and escape	p. 61
Information and escape	p. 69
Conclusion	p. 74
Integration at Exile	p. 77
Security and exile	p. 81
Material resources and exile	p. 88
Information and exile	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 96
Return Decisions	p. 99
Short-distance repatriation from Pakistan	p. 103
Security and return	p. 107
Material resources and return	p. 117
Information and return	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 132
Reintegration at 'Home'	p. 135
Security and reintegration	p. 140
Material resources and reintegration	p. 151
Information and reintegration	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 163
Conclusions	p. 167
Escape and return decisions	p. 168
Integration and reintegration	p. 173
War, migration, and the transformation of networks	p. 177
Studying wartime migration	p. 181
Appendix: Researching Migration in War	p. 184
Notes	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 199
Author Index	p. 222
Subject Index	p. 223
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