pSituated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, iRefugee Cities itells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a necessary glimpse of what ordinary life looks like for a long-term refugee population, beyond the headlines of war, terror, or helpless suffering. It also increases our understanding of how cities--rather than the nation--are important sites of identity-making for people of migrant origins. pIn iRefugee Citiesi, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs local microhistories to chronicle the lives of ordinary people living in low-income neighborhoods in Peshawar and Karachi and the ways in which they have transformed the cities of which they are a part. In Pakistan, formal citizenship is almost impossible for Afghans to access despite this, Afghans have made new neighborhoods, expanded city boundaries, built cities through their labor in construction proj