Migration And Social Upheaval As The Face Of Globalization In Central Asia (social Sciences In Asia)

Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations due to social upheavals over the last twenty years impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identities; and gender relations in Central Asia. This volume raises the importance of internal migrations, those at a regional, intra-Central Asian, level, labor migrations to Russia, and carries us as far away to the Uzbek migrants based in Istanbul, New York, or Seoul, as well as to the young women of Tashkent who head to Germany or France, and to the Germans, Greeks, and Jews of Central Asia who have returned to their “ethnic homelands”. Contributors include Aida Aaly Alimbaeva, Stéphanie Belouin, Adeline Braux, Asel Dolotkeldieva, Olivier Ferrando, Sophie Hohmann, Nafisa Khusenova, Erica Marat, Sophie Massot, Saodat Olimova, Sébastien Peyrouse, Luisa Piart, Madeleine Reeves, Elena Sadovskaya. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 About the Authors 10 Introduction 14 Part One Flows, Remittances, and Government Policies 26 Introduction 28 Contemporary International Migration in Central Asia and the Rise of Migrants’ Diasporas and Networks 32 Labor Migration during the 2008-9 Global Economic Crisis 60 To Stay or Not to Stay: The Global Economic Crisis and Return Migration to Tajikistan 74 Kazakhstan: Central Asia’s New Migration Crossroads 96 Part Two Migratory Strategies as Patterns of Adaptation to Social Upheaval 118 Introduction 120 Internal Migration in Kyrgyzstan: A Geographical and Sociological Study of Rural Migration 126 Socio-Economic Migrations and Health Issues Resulting from the Tajik Civil War 158 Azerbaijanis in Russia: An Imagined Diaspora? 176 Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow: Public Policies, Migratory Strategies, and Associative Networks 196 Part Three An Evolving Social Fabric: Mobile National and Individual Identities 218 Introduction 220 Former Colonists On The Move: The Migration of Russian-Speaking Populations 224 The Central Asian States and their Co-Ethnics from Abroad: Diaspora Policies and Repatriation Programs 248 From Uzbek Qishlok to Tajik Samarkand: Rural Depopulation as a Migration of Identity 272 Economic Migrations from Uzbekistan to Moscow, Seoul, and New York: Sacrifice or Rite of Passage? 292 Part Four Impact on Gender Relations: Masculinity and Femininity in Flux 310 Introduction 312 Migration, Masculinity, and Transformations of Social Space in the Sokh Valley, Uzbekistan 316 Transition, Migration, Capitalism: Female Uzbek Shuttle Traders in Istanbul 342 The Feminization of Tajik Labor Migration to Russia 364 Projects and Migratory Strategies of Women Belonging to the Tashkent Intelligentsia 386 Bibliography 406 Index 418 Structures of international migration in Central Asia / Elena Y. Sadovskaya Labor migration during the 2008-9 Global Economic Crisis / Erica Marat To Stay or not to Stay: the Global Economic Crisis and return migration to Tajikistan / Saodat Olimova Kazakhstan: Central Asia's new migration crossroads / Marlene Laruelle Internal migration in Kyrgyzstan: a geographical and sociological study of rural migration / Aida Aaly Alymbaeva Azerbaijanis in Russia: an imagined diaspora? / Adeline Braux Kyrgyz migrants in Moscow: public policies, migratory strategies, and associative networks / Asel Dolotkeldieva Former "colonists" on the move? the Migration of Russian-speaking populations / Sebastien Peyrouse The Central Asian States and their co-ethnics from Abroad: diaspora policies and repatriation programs / Olivier Ferrando From Uzbek Qishlok to Tajik Samarkand: rural depopulation as a migration of identity / Sophie Massot Economic migrations from Uzbekistan to Moscow, Seoul, and New York: sacrifice or rite of passage? / Sophie Massot Femininity in flux migration, masculinity, and transformations of social space in the Sokh Valley, Uzbekistan / Madeleine Reeves Transition, migration, capitalism: female Uzbek shuttle traders in istanbul the Feminization of Tajik labor migration to Russia / Nafisa Khusenova Projects and migratory strategies of omen belonging to the Tashkent intelligentsia / Stephanie Belouin. Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identity transformations; and gender relation in Central Asia.