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Coping Strategies: Public Avoidance, Migration, and Marriage in the Aftermath of the Osh Conflict, Fergana Valley
(2012-06)
This paper examines the changing survival strategies of Uzbeks in the aftermath of mass violent conflict in Osh in June 2010. After the riots, Osh Uzbeks were exposed to many difficulties. The Kyrgyz government used economic ...
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 ...
Reflections on Migration Dynamics in Northern Ghana from the ‘Crossroads Perspective’
(2016-02)
The paper analyses mobility patterns in Northern Ghana while reflecting also on my ‘positionality’ as researcher from the area thus critically analysing mobility patterns and processes of negotiating social boundaries and ...
China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective
(2016-04)
This paper discusses the current situation of China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective. My aim is to rethink modernity in the Chinese context and its impact on Kazakhs in Xinjiang, to discuss ...
From Uyghurs to Kashgaris (and back?): Migration and Cross-Border Interactions Between Xinjiang and Pakistan
(2014-10)
China and Pakistan share a common border, formally established in 1963, and a close friendship which, to a certain extent, is a direct consequence of that agreement. Somewhat surprisingly the two countries managed to ...
Shift and Drift in Hazara Ethnic Consciousness: The Impact of Conflict and Migration
(2012-09-27)
The paper argues that ethnicity and ethnic consciousness among the Hazaras is inexorably linked with the emergence of the Afghan state in the end of the nineteenth century and the crisis and instability that it has gone ...
Towards a Poststructuralist Approach to Religion: A Response to "The Label of ‘Religion"
(2019)
This working paper presents a poststructuralist approach to religion studies and
discusses its usefulness in an exemplary way by engaging with FIW working paper
no. 11 on labeling processes of migrants in contemporary ...
Africa – EU Relations: The evolution of an agenda of partnership
(2024-01)
This paper gives an overview of the evolution of the Africa-EU Partnership and its priorities between the years 2000 and 2022. It delves into the complex and dynamic relations between the two partners, whilst exploring ...
Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of non-migrants when preferences are social
(2019-04)
We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies ...
Migrating for children’s better future: Intergenerational Mobility of Internal Migrants’ Children in Indonesia
(2019-12)
Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration ...