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Migration and Identity in Central Asia: The Uzbek Experience book cover

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Migration and Identity in Central Asia The Uzbek Experience

By Rano Turaeva Copyright 2016
236 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in the capital city of Uzbekistan. The ethnographic details of the book represent post-Soviet urban realities on the ground where various forms of belonging clash and kinship ties are reinforced within social safety networks. Theoretically, it challenges the existing theories of identity and identification which often... Read more

1. Unmaking Uzbek Identity and Language Part I: Uzbek Identity 2. Making of Uzbek Nationality 3. De Jure Boundary Among Uzbeks; De Facto Propiska Part II: Identification and Communication 4. Linguistic Means and Rhetorical Strategies in Identification Processes Part III: Identification and Belonging 5. Who Is a Negro and Who Is Not? Sub-Ethnic Groups of Uzbeks: Khorezmians and Others in Tashkent 6. Networking Strategies of Migrants: Khorezmian Community in Tashkent PART IV: Identification and Interdependence 7. "Ipsiz boglanib qalmaq" or Bound Without Ropes: Interdependence in Khorezmian Migrant Communities in Tashkent 8. Identity Theories Revisited: Relations of ‘I and the We’ vs ‘the We and Them’

Biography

Rano Turaeva is an Affiliated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Germany.

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