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Coolies, Recruiters and Planters: Migration of Indian Labour to the Southeast Asian and Assam Plantations during Colonial Rule
(2013-07)
This paper attempts to tell the story of marginalized agrarian communities, who were economically depressed as a consequence of colonial land revenue policies and became the hunting ground for recruitment and transportation ...
The Significance of Geopolitical Issues for Internal Development and Intervention in Mountainous Areas of Crossroads Asia
(2013-01)
This working paper illustrates the process of territorial transformation in time and space. From the period of Silk Road networks to imperial designs for spatial control in Crossroads Asia, external interests for local and ...
„Der Entwicklungsprozess des Islams in Tadschikistan nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion“ als Figuration nach Norbert Elias?: Eine erste Annäherung
(2013-07)
In 70 Jahren sowjetischer Herrschaft waren die Muslime Zentralasiens fast vollständig von ihren Glaubensbrüdern abgeschnitten. Durch die atheistisch-ideologischen Repressionen waren die Menschen gezwungen, ihren Glauben ...
Being a muhajir in present-day Afghanistan – Views on flight and migration from inside
(2013-07)
In this paper I focus on the internal discourse of those Afghans who are refugees within their country today. I want to show how the use of a certain vocabulary is crucial for the creation of particular perspectives on ...
The Ontological Sources of Political Stability and Economy: Mahalla Mediation in the Rural Communities of Southern Tajikistan
(2013-09)
For the sake of a modest contribution to Crossroads Studies, this article argues that state and society in Tajikistan is embedded into personal (kinship, patron-client, etc.) networks of people. These networks structure ...
Investment and Translocality: Recontextualizing the Baloch in Islamic and Global History
(2013-12)
The Baloch are one of the best documented ethnic communities in the modern Islamic world. But the information comes from non-Baloch, who saw them as a tribal population, with their own history and culture, separate from ...
Migration and patrilineal descent: the effects of spatial male mobility on social female mobility in rural Kyrgyzstan
(2013-08)
Migration processes in Kyrgyzstan have given rise to fundamental social and demographic changes with the result that many villages and town quarters are nowadays inhabited solely by women, children and the elderly, whereas ...
The Anxiety of Development: Megaprojects and the Politics of Place in Gwadar, Pakistan
(2013-01)
This working paper explores the social geography of anticipation, desire, exclusion, and control that has emerged as a result of Baloch fishermen’s entanglement with the Pakistani government’s plans to develop a large ...
How migrants made their way: The role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration
(2013-07)
In this working paper, I investigate the role which solidarity networks based on different types of shared identities, perceived relatedness and kinship affiliations played for enabling, shaping, facilitating and intensifying ...