Subjects or Citizens? India, Pakistan and the 1948 British Nationality Act

Ansari, Sarah

doi:10.1080/03086534.2013.768094

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“…Such people exercise self-denial, although they contribute to positive multiplier effects on the environment; however, in the process they also seek personal benefit. Using the social construction of janitorial stigma, their work is held in disdain and their identities are tarnished, although they are not unhygienic themselves [46]. The study envisages how entrepreneurial agency works in unanticipated ways where the poorest of the poor enterprise without resources or assets, yet they demonstrate unexpected agency to improve the environment.…”

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confidence: 96%

Sustainability of Recycling Waste Picker Sustainopreneurs for Prevention and Mitigation of Municipal Solid Waste in Swat

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This study assessed the role of waste picker sustainopreneurs (WPS) by examining their recycling contributions in a special case of District Swat, Pakistan. Using a transformative worldview, this study acknowledges their contributions to recycling. The study envisages how entrepreneurial agency works in unanticipated ways where the poorest of the poor enterprise without resources demonstrate unexpected agency to improve the environment. An inductive research design in conjunction with grounded theory was used to analyze data from 37 interviews in three tehsils of District Swat. The recycling sector uses primitive measures, which are completely informal, self-organized, and self-controlled. Surprisingly, we discovered that informal recycling contributes unfavorably to waste, energy, and food (WEF) security due to intermixing and adulteration, as well as acts as a gray channel for illicit practices that have taken advantage of tax amnesty in the area until 2023. The uncontrolled welding of half cut and nose cut car parts has skyrocketed the motorization index and CO2 emissions; however, it has also resulted in alternative sources of livelihoods, as these accidental environmentalists had found modern sources of income. This is similar to low-tech innovation and business creation that takes advantage of tax holidays due to the special status of District Swat. The study highlights the most and least valuable recyclables and identifies the gray channel markets of spare parts, metal recycling, counterfeit products, fuel intermixing, and adulteration. The study contributes by untangling the understanding of a legal gambit of tax amnesty at a critical pre-policy input as well as advocates for rights of invisible stakeholders of waste management in Pakistan.

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Sustainability of Recycling Waste Picker Sustainopreneurs for Prevention and Mitigation of Municipal Solid Waste in Swat

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“…In early 1953, for example, the Sultan of Oman, whose writ still extended to Gwadur on what is now Pakistan's Baluchistan coast, issued a notice that all foreigners in Muscat were required to have a 'proper passport' or face prosecution. But his instruction raised practical difficulties for local Khojas and Ismailis because they were still uncertain about their new citizenship status -were they to become Pakistanis or Indians, or to continue as British subjects of some description (Ansari 2013). 6 What made the problem more acute from the standpoint of the Pakistan Foreign Ministry in Karachi was that by this time people of Indian extraction living in Muscat could obtain Indian passports 'without trouble' by applying through the UK consulate to New Delhi's legation at Baghdad.…”

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confidence: 97%

At the crossroads? Exploring Sindh's recent past from a spatial perspective

Ansari

2015

Contemporary South Asia

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This article explores Sindh, today a province in Pakistan, in terms of its spatial relationship with the various overlapping 'worlds' to which it has belonged in the recent past. Sindh's reputation under the British was as a sleepy backwater, located at a distance from centres of colonial power. But this simplistically static picture belies its relationship, for instance, with new communication and transportation links that connected it in different ways to places outside its immediate provincial boundaries, whether Indian, imperial or international. By the time of British India's independence, Sindh (and its port city of Karachi in particular) constituted a major crossroads: and while in the second half of the twentieth century it became more of a hub than it had ever been in its history, equally never before had so many people made it their final destination and home. This article, thus, traces the interconnected processes that, both before and since 1947, have helped to position, and arguably redefine, Sindh's place in the world.

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“…The original language of the Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951, forbade obtaining any kind of dual citizenship with any nation other than the United Kingdom and affiliated Commonwealth countries. But afterwards, agreements with other nation-states were reached (Ansari, 2013).…”

Section: Dual Citizenship: a Contested Status In Pakistanmentioning

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Transnational migration and dual citizenship: The conundrum of social and economic rights of dual citizens in Pakistan

Chaudry

Bilal

2022

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Pakistan is among the Asian countries which permits dual citizenship. However, the dual citizenship privileges availed by overseas-based Pakistanis spark intense debate making Pakistani dual citizens and their entitlements a contested subject in the country. A qualitative study was conducted in the city of Rawalpindi asking what the attitudes of Pakistani citizens on dual citizenship are, as well as their positions on the rights of dual citizens with regard to education, employment and property ownership in Pakistan. In-depth interviews were conducted with two groups of interviewees: 25 Pakistani citizens and 18 Pakistani dual citizens. The findings suggest that Pakistani citizens resist the unconditional provision of socio-economic rights to Pakistani dual citizens considering their “split loyalties.” Most of the respondents argued against their employment in sensitive institutions such as the armed forces and judiciary, however, their right to education and property acquisition was supported in circumstances when it benefits Pakistan’s development. The perspectives of dual citizens also reflect ambivalence over how to resolve the allegiance conundrum and as a result, display divergent views on their privileges and rights in their home country.

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Subjects or Citizens? India, Pakistan and the 1948 British Nationality Act

Cited by 73 publications

References 10 publications

Sustainability of Recycling Waste Picker Sustainopreneurs for Prevention and Mitigation of Municipal Solid Waste in Swat

Sustainability of Recycling Waste Picker Sustainopreneurs for Prevention and Mitigation of Municipal Solid Waste in Swat

At the crossroads? Exploring Sindh's recent past from a spatial perspective

Transnational migration and dual citizenship: The conundrum of social and economic rights of dual citizens in Pakistan

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