ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses that the classical accounts of migration have taken such claims for granted, underestimating personal ambition and selfhood as motivating forces of migration. Migrant testimonies were marked, for the most part, by a striking absence of any explicit search for romantic love or sexual fulfilment. The spectre of young men cajoling their households to finance their being smuggled must be seen against the absence of equivalent or even remotely comparable independent female primary migration from Pakistan. As early as the late 1970s the Pakistani state began to adopt a policy of encouraging international emigration as a means of alleviating the country's intensifying economic woes. Movement within the Pakistani migration system is thus deeply polarised at its two extremes, and powerfully segmented along various lines, one of which is social class.
