CHAIR
Bhavna Dave
(SOAS, U of London, UK)
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PAPERS
Scott Radnitz
(U of Washington, US)
srad@uw.edu
Geopolitics and Migration:
The Case of the Relokanty in Kyrgyzstan
Steve Swerdlow
(USC, US)
(USC, US)
Shiza Khan
The Politics of Permanent Displacement:
Meskhetian Turks in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space
Christopher Hartwell
(Zurich U of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Diabolus ex Machina:
The Machinery of Forced Migration in Kazakhstan
Malika Zehni
(U of London, UK)
Undesirable Shelter:
Seeking Refuge in and out of Tsarist Central Asia
Yuji Uesugi
(Waseda U, Japan)
Xiru Zhao
(Waseda U, Japan)
Digital Bridges and Physical Borders:
Kachin Ontological Security in Post-COVID Myanmar-China Borderlands
Mukhtarbek Shaikemelev
(Institute of Philosophy, Kazakhstan)
The Influence of Ethnodemographic and Foreign Policy Factors
on the Social Strategies of Ethnic Groups in Kazakhstan
DISCUSSANT
Olena Nikolayenko
(Fordham U, US)