2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.12.007
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Immobility and the re-imaginings of ethnic identity among Mongolian Kazakhs in the 21st century

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“…Beginning in the early 1990s, following Mongolia's transition to a democratic form of governance and capitalist economic system, Kazakhs in Mongolia began migrating to Kazakhstan in response to calls for “repatriation” to the “Kazakh homeland” by Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev. This outmigration from Mongolia and subsequent return migration have been explored extensively by Diener (), Finke (, ), Barcus and Werner (, ), and Werner and Barcus (). Amongst these studies, Barcus and Werner () note that immobile populations played an important role in facilitating migration and economic development in western Mongolia.…”
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confidence: 94%
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“…Beginning in the early 1990s, following Mongolia's transition to a democratic form of governance and capitalist economic system, Kazakhs in Mongolia began migrating to Kazakhstan in response to calls for “repatriation” to the “Kazakh homeland” by Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev. This outmigration from Mongolia and subsequent return migration have been explored extensively by Diener (), Finke (, ), Barcus and Werner (, ), and Werner and Barcus (). Amongst these studies, Barcus and Werner () note that immobile populations played an important role in facilitating migration and economic development in western Mongolia.…”
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confidence: 94%
“…For this article, we draw on ongoing research amongst the Kazakh ethnic minority population of Mongolia to understand how cultural narratives and place elasticity evolve amongst rural outmigrants who desire to maintain connections with their cultural hearth. Beginning in 2014, we initiated a second study of the Mongolian Kazakhs (see Barcus & Werner, , , Werner & Barcus, for details on the first, 2006–2009, study) seeking to understand how the rapidly and dramatically changing economic circumstances of Mongolia were affecting this rural, socially and economically peripheral ethnic minority population. This research focused on Kazakh migrants from rural aimags (provinces) , such as Bayan‐Ulgii, to Ulaanbaatar.…”
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