Migrant Pathways and State Borders: Theorizing Labour Mobility in Post-Soviet Eurasia
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This book examines post-Soviet labor migration from Central Asia to Russia, focusing on Tajik, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz migrants within shifting Eurasian and global contexts. It critiques traditional migration theories and advances a pluralistic, interdi...
This book examines post-Soviet labor migration from Central Asia to Russia, focusing on Tajik, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz migrants within shifting Eurasian and global contexts. It critiques traditional migration theories and advances a pluralistic, interdisciplinary framework incorporating political economy, transnationalism, intersectionality, and assemblage thinking. Through a periodized analysis from the 1990s to post-2023, it highlights how Soviet legacies, demographic needs, securitization, digital governance, remittances, and geopolitical change shape mobility. The study frames migration as a contested social and political process, contributes to decolonizing migration scholarship, and centers migrant lived experiences as foundational to theory.