Xinjiang Year Zero

0554905 - OÚ 2022 RIV AU eng M - Monography Chapter
Tynen, Sam
Triple dispossession in northwestern China.
Xinjiang Year Zero. Sydney: Australian National University Press, 2022 - (Byler, D.; Franceschini, I.; Loubere, N.), s. 105-116. ISBN 9781760464943
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : China * dispossession * displacement * migration * violence * nation-state
OECD category: Political science
https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/xinjiang-year-zero

While the media and some foreign governments focus on internment camps for Uyghurs in China, questions remain about the invisible violence of the state: How do dispossession and displacement occur for rural migrant Uyghurs in Xinjiang on an individual scale? To explore these questions, I focus on 22 Uyghurs and their rural-to-urban migration experiences. Their stories illustrate their dispossession even before the internment camps became widespread. According to my interviews, the three stages of dispossession are displacement from the countryside, alienation in the city, and ultimately eviction from the city. This triple dispossession helped create the conditions for the mass internment.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0329790