Table 2.

Data structure

First-orderSecond-orderThird-orderIntegration process
Trauma
Stress
Insecurities
Lack of confidence
Unemployment/underemployment
Lack of education
Competitive formal market
Lack of trust
Huge informal market of Pakistan
Immediate family attachment helps in dealing with negative emotions
Nuclear family configurations demand means to survive
Family business is preferred
Family members work for their business
Informal businesses are started
Resilience
Survival instincts
Forced to informal business
Family business is inherited to generations
Entering labor market
    
Increase communication and interaction with ethnic networks in other cities
Cheap labor
Business collaborations
Increased trust
Job opportunities in
Afghan businesses
Informal training and advice
Networks
Migration networks providing with resources
Increased access to locations and spatial networks
Afghan refugee migration network
Social ties in sparse locations
Support from ethnic refugee networks
Local help for legal matters e.g. tax, bails, etc
Afghan refugee generations learning the language
Celebrating/adopting local Pakistani traditions
Local social ties
Entering to local education institutes
Local community developing trust
Accepting Afghan refugees as one of them (slow process)
Afghan refugee young generations consider them Pakistanis
Pace of acculturationDeveloping bridging ties

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