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Making Migrants : International Migration Management in Tajikistan.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bahovadinova, Malika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Bureaucracy--Tajikistan.
- Bureaucracy.
- Tajikistan--Social conditions--1991-.
- Tajikistan.
- Tajikistan--Politics and government--1991-.
- Tajikistan--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Tajikistan--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Tajikistan--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This book is an ethnography of transnational migration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. It explores how global migration management is introduced and facilitated between Tajikistan and Russia, revealing how well-meaning migration officials entrench and inevitably advance colonial rationalities"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Before the law : domesticating migrants in the migration bureaucracy
- Between a knife and the law : human rights and expertise in the migration bureaucracy
- The power of zakon : Russian soldier, Tajik migrant, bureaucrat
- A colonial situation : heroic migrants and sedentary locals
- Feeding the ferocious white men : hospitality in the bureaucracy of migration management
- The ordering of the Tajik State
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5128-2905-6
- 9781512829051
- OCLC:
- 1543543755
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