Getting stuck within flows: limited interaction and peripheralization at the Kazakhstan–China border

Alff, Henryk

doi:10.1080/02634937.2016.1210860

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“…To generalise, as cross-border trade is channelled through a smaller number of border crossings for political and economic reasons (Harris 2017), customs inspections and security checks are expected to become more severe, but also fairer and more transparent (Alff 2016b;2016c). 17 When observed on the ground, however, these same regulations produce an uneven impact across different groups.…”

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Borderland Infrastructures

Rippa¹

2020

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Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia-the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra-and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders), but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities.

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Borderland Infrastructures

Rippa¹

2020

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“…For an examination of the diverse populations that migrated from China to Russia and from Russia to China in the nineteenth century see Datsyshen (2012), Peshkov (2018), Holzlehner (2014). For the migration of Chinese citizens to Central Asia in the twentieth century see Sadovskaya (2012), and for the multi-national encounters among traders in the China-Central Asian borders in the twentieth century see: Alff (2016), Steenberg (2016), Parham (2016). 10.…”

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Hierarchies of trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The case of an Uzbek merchant family from Tajikistan

Tirado¹

2018

History and Anthropology

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This article focuses on the trading trajectory of an Uzbek family of merchants from Tajikistan. This family runs businesses in both Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, and China's famous international trading city: Yiwu. The analysis is centred on the accounts placed by Tajikistan's Uzbek merchants about their historically sustained experience, often across several generations, in trading activities. These merchants' claims of belonging to a 'historical' trading community rather than being 'newcomers' to long-distance commerce are articulated in relation to notions of 'hierarchies of trade' as they evolve in a twofold relational model linking Yiwu's Changchun neighbourhood and Dushanbe. I suggest that the forms of conviviality enacted in Yiwu's Changchun neighbourhood need to be understood in terms of the historical, multinational and transregional contacts that have occurred within the spaces of the former Soviet Union, as well as along the China-Russia and China-Central Asian borders. Equally, the hierarchies of trade of Uzbek merchants from Tajikistan in Yiwu's Changchun neighbourhood cut-across markers of identity that juxtapose the roles of Tajik and Uzbek communities in Tajikistan's contemporary politics and economics.

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“…In some cases, migrants also develop inventive economic niches and create new jobs. At the same time, migration from Kyrgyzstan also makes evident how many people are selfemployed in the whole region, straddling between formality, informality and uncertainty, often running several businesses at once (Alff 2015(Alff , 2016Berner et al 2012). In regions with a population deficit or decreasing population, immigration is also a way to ensure critical population size to maintain social services and generate an influx of economic resources and investments.…”

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Migration and justice in the era of sustainable development goals: a conceptual framework

Janker

Thieme

2021

Sustain Sci

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Migration and mobility are major characteristics of societies worldwide. The reasons for and pathways of migrations vary, as do perceptions of migration. Political debates are often organised normatively: the debate on the sustainable development goals presents migration foremost as a development issue resulting from global inequalities. The problems faced by particular migrants, and what a more sustainable approach to migration would look like are, therefore, often lost in political debates. We aim to address those gaps: the article conceptualizes, based on established academic debates, how sustainability in migration can be addressed systematically, which aspects are important for a more sustainable migration process and which trade-offs and injustices exist from several perspectives. We create a conceptual framework of sustainability in migration processes, building on the concepts of inter- and intragenerational justice, commonly accepted as the core of the sustainability concept. We apply this conceptual framework to empirical findings on labour migration and multilocality in Kyrgyzstan. The case enables consideration of the nested system effects of scale and translocality. This research is novel because it bridges the divided literature on migration, justice and sustainability, integrates theoretical and empirical insights and provokes a debate on which kind of migration we want to achieve.

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Getting stuck within flows: limited interaction and peripheralization at the Kazakhstan–China border

Cited by 22 publications

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Hierarchies of trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The case of an Uzbek merchant family from Tajikistan

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