DEMYSTIFYING THE MYTH OF AFGHAN REFUGEES AS A BURDEN ON LOCAL ECONOMY

Abstract

The present research was conducted in district killa-Abdullah to demystify the Myth against afghan refugees. Generally it is believed afghan refugees are a burden on the already scarce resources, and are considered the evil of all birds including the menaces of all kinds of drugs and weapon culture in the area. The anthropological techniques i.e. participants observation , rapport building , key informants and anthropological tools such as interview guide , case study and focus group discussions were used to measure the research objectives. The study finding indicate the various types of discrimination faced by afghan refugees based on these assumption. Because of these negative stereotypes; they are facing discrimination in their day-to-day lives. This study seeks to uncover the stereotypical discriminatory behavior with afghan refugees. It tries to explore the contribution of Afghan refugees in economic, social and culture life of local population. The finding highlighted the positive contribution of afghan refugees in the revival of local economy and the renaissance of the culture. The ground reality is that before the Afghan refugees there was no agriculture or very little activities in this area. The study finding refuted that afghan refugees are responsible for the drug and weapons culture. Basically Afghan refugees brought the cultural revival and reintroduce those cultural traits which vanished in this part of the Pashtun culture. Moreover it tries to explore; the local’s bigoted attitude towards Afghans, the introduced new avenues of revenue by refugees, the imputation against them, and the discrimination with them through a purely subaltern and interpretivist lens.