Migration Between Hope and Despair: Paths of Mobility Inside and Beyond Central Asia

Activity Type: 
Panel Discussion
Date: 
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 11:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Posvar 3431
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

CHAIR: Zarina Mukanova | DISCUSSANT: Caitlin Ryan ROOM: Posvar 3431 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

• Between Hope and Despair: Expectations and Disappointments Among Kazak Repatriates
Peter Finke (University of Zürich)

• Leaving Home, Coming Home: Kazakstan as Homeland and Hope-Giver for Repatriate Kazakhs
Indira Alibayeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)

• Disputed Brotherhood: Central Asian Experiences in Turkey?
Meltem Sancak (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)

• Migrants and Nationalism as Identity Crises in Central Asia
Russell Zanca (Northeastern Illinois University)

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Director's Office
Confucius Institute
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Graduate Organisation for the Study of Europe and Central Asia
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
Humanities Center
Office of the Provost Year of PittGlobal
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh Press
World History Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Central Eurasian Studies Society
China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development
World Regions: 
Russia/Eastern Europe