Migration and Welfare Austerity: Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781836954347)

Vendor: Aksana Ismailbekova
Product type: Books
Format: Library Binding
$135.00
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Migration and Welfare Austerity: Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan

$135.00

Migration and Welfare Austerity: Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan

$135.00
Format: Library Binding
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, residents of Alma, a village in Kyrgyzstan, were faced with many challenges. Economic crisis and the elimination of welfare support forced an entire generation to become labour migrants in Russia. Those 'left behind' were sustained by migrants' remittances and charitable activities, but at a cost. As villagers built upon existing kinship structures to create new practices of mutual aid on the lines of Islamic teaching, they suffered from the 'dark side of kinship.' This book shares experiences of people in Alma and its Moscow-based diaspora and how they created a 'moral economy of migration' that became territorialised as kindship was de-territorialised.

Author: Aksana Ismailbekova
ISBN-10: 1836954344
ISBN-13: 9781836954347
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2026
Pages: 284
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Aksana Ismailbekova
By Aksana Ismailbekova
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Aksana Ismailbekova is Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the importance of gender, kinship and religion in negotiating socioeconomic change. She is the author of the book Blood Ties and the Native Sons: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan (Indian University Press, 2017), and the co-editor of Surviving Everyday Life: The Security Capes of Threatened People in Central Asia (Bristol University Press, 2020).

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