Contents

About the Authors

Introduction

Part One Flows, Remittances, and Government Policies

Introduction

Contemporary International Migration in Central Asia and the Rise of Migrants’ Diasporas and Networks

Labor Migration during the 2008-9 Global Economic Crisis

To Stay or Not to Stay: The Global Economic Crisis and Return Migration to Tajikistan

Kazakhstan: Central Asia’s New Migration Crossroads

Part Two Migratory Strategies as Patterns of Adaptation to Social Upheaval

Introduction

Internal Migration in Kyrgyzstan: A Geographical and Sociological Study of Rural Migration

Socio-Economic Migrations and Health Issues Resulting from the Tajik Civil War

Azerbaijanis in Russia: An Imagined Diaspora?

Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow: Public Policies, Migratory Strategies, and Associative Networks

Part Three An Evolving Social Fabric: Mobile National and Individual Identities

Introduction

Former Colonists On The Move: The Migration of Russian-Speaking Populations

The Central Asian States and their Co-Ethnics from Abroad: Diaspora Policies and Repatriation Programs

From Uzbek Qishlok to Tajik Samarkand: Rural Depopulation as a Migration of Identity

Economic Migrations from Uzbekistan to Moscow, Seoul, and New York: Sacrifice or Rite of Passage?

Part Four Impact on Gender Relations: Masculinity and Femininity in Flux

Introduction

Migration, Masculinity, and Transformations of Social Space in the Sokh Valley, Uzbekistan

Transition, Migration, Capitalism: Female Uzbek Shuttle Traders in Istanbul

The Feminization of Tajik Labor Migration to Russia

Projects and Migratory Strategies of Women Belonging to the Tashkent Intelligentsia

Bibliography

Index