Borisova, E;
(2024)
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good life.
[Book].
Economic Exposures in Asia.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, it foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘stay put’ in the sending society and struggle to reproduce their moral communities. Elena Borisova examines the role of mobility in historical and cultural ideas about the good life and how it 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, she 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 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 contribution to contemporary migration research, which is mostly centred on Europe and North America, and to the field of Central Asian studies. It will be of interest to researchers of migration, (im)mobility and citizenship, and to scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good life |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086647 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086647 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086647 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2024 Images © Author, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Borisova, E. 2024. Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good life. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086647 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecom mons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Migration, mobility, citizenship, anthropology, morality |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190217 |
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