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Tracing connections and its politics
No full textThe chapter argues that studying places and identities as a tension yields useful research insights, because it forces us to do three things. First, it forces us to think about places and identities as processes – as continuously configured and re-configured, rather than as predefined, entities. Second, it forces us to think about them as embodied, material processes. The concrete ways in which this tension pans out cannot be known in the abstract or a priori – they must be studied in concrete settings, as they play out in different historical moments, geographical contexts and in relation to different individuals or social groups. It therefore forces us, third, to think about the unequal power relations that shape these tensions, both in their global and structured as well as in their fluid, situated and embodied configurations. Borders can help us to capture both the fixed and the mobile, or, the slipperiness of units that both are and are not
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Book review to: Beyond the Steppe Frontier. A History of the Sino–Russian Border. - Sören Urbansky, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020, xiii + 367pp.
No full textPost-Soviet Decline or China-Induced Prosperity? Agricultural and Socio-Economic Change in the Kazakhstan-China Borderlands
No full textBetween place of birth and land of forefathers : the social networks of Kazakhs from Mongolia and their role in the post-soviet migration and incorporation process
No full textSeit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion kamen in diesem Raum neue Migrationsprozesse wie die Arbeitsmigration zwischen den südlichen GUS-Republiken und Russland, aber auch grenzüberschreitende Bevölkerungsbewegungen ethnischer Gruppen in ihre „historischen Herkunftsgebiete“ auf. Die in der vorliegenden Arbeit untersuchten, dynamischen Wanderungsprozesse von Kasachen zwischen der Mongolei und Kasachstan weisen Kennzeichen dieses Migrationstypus, aber auch einige Besonderheiten auf. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat längere Forschungsaufenthalte in Kasachstan und der Mongolei von 2006 bis 2009 zur Grundlage. Aus der Mongolei stammende kasachische Migranten im Umland von Almaty und Kasachen im westlichsten aymag der Mongolei, Bayan-Ölgiy, wurden mittels quantitativer und qualitativer Methoden empirischer Sozialforschung befragt. Ergänzend wurden in beiden Staaten Befragungen von Experten aus gesellschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen und politischen Institutionen durchgeführt, um eine möglichst ausgeglichene Sicht auf die postsowjetischen Migrations- und Inkorporationsprozesse zwischen beiden Staaten sicherzustellen. Zwischen den Migranten in Kasachstan und ihren – noch bzw. wieder – in der Mongolei lebenden Verwandten haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten enge soziale Netzwerke entwickelt. Die Aufrechterhaltung der Bindungen wird durch eine Verbesserung der Transport- und Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten zwischen beiden Staaten gefördert. Zirkuläre Migrationsmuster, regelmäßige Besuche und Telefongespräche sowie grenzüberschreitende sozioökonomische Unterstützungsmechanismen haben sich insbesondere in den vergangenen Jahren intensiviert. Diese Interaktionen sind im Kontext der rechtlichen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen im Migrationssystem Mongolei-Kasachstan – und insbesondere in Wechselwirkung mit der staat¬lichen Migrations- und Inkorpora-tionspolitik – einzuordnen. Die Erkenntnisse der vorliegenden Untersuchung lassen sich in aller Kürze so zusammenfassen: (I) Die in sozialen Netzwerken organisierten Interaktionen der Kasachen aus der Mongolei weisen Merkmale von, aber auch Unterschiede zu Konzepten des Transnationalismus-Ansatzes auf. (II) Die sozialen Bindungen zwischen Verwandten generieren Sozialkapital und tragen zur alltäglichen Unterstützung bei. (III) Die lokalen und grenzüberschreitenden Aktivitäten der Migranten sind als Strategien der sozioökonomischen Eingliederung zu deuten. (IV) Ein wesentlicher Teil der aus der Mongolei stammenden Kasachen artikuliert von der Mehrheitsbevölkerung abweichende, hybride Identifikationsmuster, die die politischen Eliten in Kasachstan bisher zu wenig wahrnehmen.Since the collapse of the USSR new migration processes such as labour migration between the southern republics of CIS and Russia, and transborder mobility of ethnic groups to their „regions of historical provenance“ emerged on its territory. The dynamic migration processes of ethnic Kazakhs between Mongolia and Kazakhstan analyzed here shows features of the latter type of migration, but also some specific characters. The present dissertation is based on sustained fieldwork carried out in Kazakhstan and Mongolia from 2006 to 2009. Surveys and in-depth interviews were conducted among Mongolian-Kazakh migrants in the environs of Almaty and Kazakhs in Mongolia’s westernmost aymag Bayan-Ölgiy. Additional interviews were held among experts from public, scientific and political institutions to ensure a balanced view on the post-soviet migration and incorporation processes. In the last two decades dense social networks developed between Mongolian-Kazakh migrants in Kazakhstan and their relatives – still or again – living in Mongolia. These networks were perpetuated by the improvement of transportation and communication links connecting both states. Circular migration patterns, regular visits and phone calls as mechanisms of transborder socioeconomic support have intensified during the last years. This interaction has to be classified in the context of legal, political and economical conditions, and, especially, in interdependency with the migration and incorporation policies of the state. The insight of the present analysis can be summarized in short in the following way: (I) The transborder interaction of the Mongolian Kazakhs, which is organized in social networks, is characterized by features of, but in the same way differs from concepts of transnationalism theory. (II) The social relations among Mongolian-Kazakh relatives generate social capital and contribute to everyday support. (III) The local and transborder activities of the Mongolian Kazakhs are to be explained as strategies of socioeconomic incorporation. (IV) A significant part of Mongolian Kazakhs articulate hybrid identification patterns that differ from the majority population and that are yet insufficiently perceived by the political elites in Kazakhstan
5. A Sense of Multiple Belonging: Translocal Relations and Narratives of Change Within a Dungan Community
No full textIntroduction The so-called ‘Forum for Culture and Science’ organized by the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, a major legislative body nominally chaired by President of State Nursultan Nazarbaev was attended by numerous leaders of the country’s ‘diasporas’. Held in September 2011 in one of Almaty’s most prestigious restaurants, its entertainment program consisted of ‘traditional’ dance performances accompanied by various signature dishes belonging to the different groups that are part of mult..
Soziale Netzwerke statt staatlicher Hilfe: Mobilität und Integration kasachischer Migranten im "Land ihrer Vorväter"
Full text linkDie Bevölkerung Kasachstans hat sich in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten wie die keines anderen zentralasiatischen Landes durch Migrationsströme gewandelt. Unter anderem sind nach offiziellen Zahlen bis 2008 rund 730.000 im Ausland lebende Kasachen den Einladungen der Staatsführung zur Rückkehr in ihre "historische Heimat" nachgekommen. Der folgende Text zeigt, dass sich das Bild der "Rückkehrmigration" wesentlich dynamischer und konfliktreicher darstellt, als von den politischen Eliten des Landes gern behauptet
Book review to: Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin. - by Alun Thomas, London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, ix‒xii + 257 pp., ISBN 9781350143685
No full textBelts and roads every- and nowhere: Conceptualizing infrastructural corridorization in the Indian Ocean
No full textThis article scrutinizes the Maritime Silk Road Initiative by framing it not as a static, state-centric device to channel Chinese developmental ambitions, but by emphasizing the flexible character of its production and the provisional configuration of its materialization. It draws on assemblage theory as a conceptual angle to, on the one hand, focus on the agentive character of human and non-human ‘actors’ such as ‘traveling’ discourses of development or infrastructures to explore Maritime Silk Road Initiative’s materialization ‘on the ground’ in its emergent rather than resultant way, on the other
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