Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life: Economic Exposures in Asia
Autor Elena Borisovaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 dec 2024
Tajikistan is one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan foregrounds the experiences of those who “stay put” in the sending society and struggle to reproduce their moral communities. In this first book-length ethnography of migration in Tajikistan, Elena Borisova examines the role of mobility through historical and cultural ideas about the good life. She demonstrates how mobility becomes entwined with people’s efforts to become good, moral, and modern subjects. Addressing the complex relationship between the economic, imaginative, and moral aspects of (im)mobility, Borisova shows that mass migration from Tajikistan is as much a project of navigating ethical personhood as it is a quest for economic resources.
This book is a beautifully crafted ethnographic account that reveals how transnational regimes and structures of mobility, citizenship, and histories map out in the intimate spheres of the body, the person, and the family. It is a major contribution to contemporary migration research, which is mostly centered on Europe and North America, and to the field of Central Asian studies. Highly readable, it will be of interest to researchers of migration, (im)mobility and citizenship, and to scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800086654
ISBN-10: 1800086652
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 33 colour photo-halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Seria Economic Exposures in Asia
ISBN-10: 1800086652
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 33 colour photo-halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Seria Economic Exposures in Asia
Notă biografică
Elena Borisova is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK.
Cuprins
List of figures
Note on transliteration
Glossary and abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Interlude: Journeys
1 The mobile place
Interlude: Living with Farhod’s family
2 From a ‘cultured man’ to a migrant worker
Interlude: Becoming a fiancée
3 Negotiating tradition: between custom and law
Interlude: A dutiful son
4 Ambivalences of care
Interlude: An ‘illegal’ citizen
5 Chasing the red passport
Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Index
Note on transliteration
Glossary and abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Interlude: Journeys
1 The mobile place
Interlude: Living with Farhod’s family
2 From a ‘cultured man’ to a migrant worker
Interlude: Becoming a fiancée
3 Negotiating tradition: between custom and law
Interlude: A dutiful son
4 Ambivalences of care
Interlude: An ‘illegal’ citizen
5 Chasing the red passport
Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Index
Recenzii
"Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is a masterful account of migrants’ mobility between Tajikistan and Russia. Carefully examining how people live their lives on the move under difficult conditions, Borisova’s lucidly written book is set to become a landmark study in the anthropology of migration."