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"They Caught Us Without Any Reason": Waste Pickers' Encounters with Police, Crime and the State in Rawalpindi–Islamabad, Pakistan

rabail ghazanfar
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Informal waste pickers (rag-pickers) are routinely portrayed as a source of urban crime, yet little research asks how they themselves experience the police, the state and the illicit economies around them. Drawing on semi-structured interviews in Urdu with 25 waste pickers aged roughly 10 to 50, liv
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