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.
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Migration and Welfare Austerity
Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan
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Migration and Welfare Austerity
Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Central Asian Kinship and Family in Historical Context: The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Kinship
- Chapter 2: Silent Voices and a Lack of Parental Authority
- Chapter 3: Dark Side of Kinship and Uncertain Marriages: Shame, Temporary Nike and Divorce
- Chapter 4: Performance and Competition: Housebuilding and Migrants’ Care of Elderly Parents
- Chapter 5: Almagrad: The Mobilization of Translocal Lineage-Based Community in Moscow
- Chapter 6: ‘Doing Good Aid’ Within Translocal Lineages
- Chapter 7: Silence, Performance: International Migration, Internal Migration and Village-Level Infrastructural Development
- Conclusion: The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Kinship
- References
- Index
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