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‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia

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  • Sherzod Eraliev
  • Rustamjon Urinboyev

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The geopolitical positioning of Central Asia as the centre of the ‘Eurasian Heartland’ has been the subject of extensive debates in academic and policy circles over the last three decades. However, the mainstream geopolitical narratives on Central Asia tend to focus on grand-level geopolitical players and discourses, thereby reducing the region and its populations to passive entities without any agency. Not much has been said about how these grand-level narratives are reflected and operate within the micro-level, everyday spaces, relationships and experiences of ordinary people. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining the everyday, micro-level discourses and experiences of geopolitics amongst Uzbek migrant workers in Russia and their left-behind families in Uzbekistan – a form of ‘everyday geopolitics’. The paper is based on a transnational ethnography of Uzbek migrant workers in Russia and in their home village in Uzbekistan, conducted between January 2014 and November 2019.

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  • Sherzod Eraliev & Rustamjon Urinboyev, 2024. "‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(2), pages 215-234, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:43:y:2024:i:2:p:215-234
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2023.2266519
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