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Vortrag: “From Uyghurs to Kashgari (and back?): Migration and cross-border interactions between Xinjiang and Pakistan.”

Am Dienstag, den 17. Juni 2014 spricht Alessandro Rippa, Doktorand am Dept. of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, und zur Zeit Crossroads Asia Fellow am Institut für Ethnologie, über “Migration and cross-border interactions between Xinjiang and Pakistan.”

17.06.2014 um 18:00 Uhr

From Uyghurs to Kashgari (and back?): Migration and cross-border interactions between Xinjiang and Pakistan

This paper addresses the hitherto unstudied case of the Uyghur community of Pakistan, the Kashgari, a group of migrants who left Xinjiang – China’s westernmost province – over the course of the last century. Based on four months of fieldwork in Pakistan, this paper aims principally at offering an overview over the history and the current situation of the Uyghur community of Pakistan. I thus first examine the migration of the Uyghur families to Pakistan according to several interviews with elder members of the community. Secondly, I analyze some recent develop-ments within the community, and focus particularly on the influence China is exercising over it since the creation of the Overseas Chinese Association in 2003. Eventually, I suggest that since the opening of the Karakoram Highway in 1982 a variety of factors – among which figures primarily this recent Chinese interest – have caused an important political divide within the community, and brought to a re-definition of the Kashgari’s identity vis-à-vis both Xinjiang and Pakistan.

Alessandro Rippa is doctoral student at the Dept. of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen. Currently, he is Crossroads Asia Fellow at the Institut für Ethnologie within the research network “Crossroads Asia”, funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.

 

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Wann?     Montag, 17. Juni 2014, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Wo?         Institut für Ethnologie, Oettingenstraße 67, 80538 München
                Raum 157 Lageplan

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