Privileged Exclusion in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ethnic Return Migration, Citizenship, and the Politics of (Not) Belonging Academic Article

abstract

• 2017 University of Glasgow. This article explores issues of citizenship and belonging associated with post-Soviet Kazakhstans repatriation programme. Beginning in 1991, Kazakhstan financed the resettlement of over 944,000 diasporic Kazakhs from nearly a dozen countries, including Mongolia, and encouraged repatriates to become naturalised citizens. Using the concept of privileged exclusion, this article argues that repatriated Kazakhs from Mongolia belong due to their knowledge of Kazakh language and traditions yet, at the same time, do not belong due to their lack of linguistic fluency in Russian, the absence of a shared Soviet experience, and limited comfort with the cosmopolitan lifestyle that characterises the new elite in this post-Soviet context.

authors

• Werner, Cynthia

published proceedings

• EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES

altmetric score

• 4.7

author list (cited authors)

• Werner, C. A., Emmelhainz, C., & Barcus, H.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Werner, Cynthia Ann||Emmelhainz, Celia||Barcus, Holly

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Europe-Asia Studies  Journal

keywords

• 4 Quality Education

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/09668136.2017.1401042

start page

• 1557

end page

• 1583

volume

• 69

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2017.1401042

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education