How people live their lives today can in some ways be traced back through their family story, including in relation to inheriting homes. Human lives can be impacted by change across generations, from grandparents, via parents to one self – such as in the case of upward social mobility, over time in a family.
This story, based in one home, focuses on three generations of a family in Karachi, from the time of Partition to the present day, and how we all stand on the shoulders of those that came before us.
This comic was illustrated by Wasfa Kamal, while Karrie Fransman was the script writer. It was produced by PositiveNegatives who also developed an animation. The animation and comic can be viewed in both English and in Urdu. This research-based story draws on research from the 'Migration Rhythms in Upward Social Mobility in Asia' project at PRIO, where Marta Bivand Erdal and Karen Liao were the researchers mostly involved in the collaboration with PositiveNegatives.
