Agriculture is major sector in the economy of Central Asia. The sustainable use of
agricultural land is therefore essential to economic growth, human well-being, social equity …

Drawing on extensive and carefully designed ethnographic fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley
region, where the state borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikizstan and Uzbekistan intersect …

What does it mean for Kyrgyzstani migrant workers in contemporary Russia to be legally
legible to the state when informal agencies market fictive residency documents and “clean …

The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on
the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her …

Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in
Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands …

Most research on labour migration from Central Asia has explored the motivations and
strategies of those who move. Comparatively less attention has been given to the …

In the introduction to this volume on 'dislocating labour'we seek to lay the ground for an
anthropology of labour that extends beyond the industrial heartlands from which the concept …

While deportability has elicited interest as a legal predicament facing migrant workers, less
attention has been given to the way in which this condition of temporal uncertainty shapes …

Toktogul Dam, central Kyrgyzstan, 11 June 2008. Our car moves through the clammy
darknessfor a long time. My companion, Bekmurat, worked on building this tunnel in the …

From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in
post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern …