What is a community? What does it mean to be a part of a community, especially when that community is not in its homeland? These are the main questions that I have been investigating during my research of the Meskhetian Turks and their experiences in Central Asia. In my first post I provided a short […]
Uzbekistan
Language and Social Institutions: Koryo Saram, Part II
Whereas my previous blog post outlined the lives and livelihoods of ethnic Koreans in the Russian Far East prior to their exile in 1937, my next two posts will shift gears slightly, focusing more on the status of the Korean language among Koryo saram throughout the past century. This post will track the maintenance of […]
Making Sense of Meskhetian Turk Migrations
You can’t undo a deportation. Jonathan Shapiro For my last three blog posts, I have decided to look at the history of Meskhetian Turks from their deportation in 1944 to the modern day. In this blog post, I am going to do my best to familiarize the reader with the Meskhetian Turks and how forced […]
Neoclassical migration theory, NELM, and migration out of Uzbekistan
I have enjoyed reading about the various theories of labor migration that we’ve looked at over the last few weeks. The application of economic theory to real world labor markets is quite interesting, particularly as we look at labor migration through the lens of neoclassical economic theory to more contemporary sociological frames such as through […]
NELM Can’t Explain Labor Migration from Uzbekistan
The new economics of labor migration (NELM) uses family unit as the unit of analysis. On the surface, it looks like it is a perfect theory that can be used to explain the labor migration situation in Uzbekistan. From Sophie Massot’s article, we learned that the Uzbek society is heavily family-driven, and the decision to […]
Exodus of Cultural Capital: the Migration of Jewish Uzbekistanis from Bukhara to Broadway
If you walk down 108th Street in Queens, NY, you’ll see some familiar sites of an Uzbek diaspora community: tandoor restaurants, traditional clothing stores, and newspaper stands carrying a publication called the Bukharan Times. More curious things you may find are signs with Hebrew alongside Uzbek Cyrillic, synagogues, and Jewish community centers. One does not […]
New finds online–Central Asians in Russian prisons, and Tajik women laborers
Marianne, Sept 18 Thanks to my many fabulous facebook friends, I sometimes become aware of things that might interest some of you and are related to this class. The first is a blog by scholar Rastamjon Urinboyev. He writes about legal and social issues for Central Asian migrants in Russia, and this is his posting […]