Malika Bahovadinova
Biographic Data
| ID | 925657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malika Bahovadinova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malika |
| FAMILY NAME | Bahovadinova |
| SIGNATURE | BAHOVADINOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6353-7740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living Migration in Central Asia
Weaponising naturalised citizenship
In the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian male citizens – especially those naturalised – became a target for large-scale drafting campaigns. This article argues that Russia weaponises citizenship in an attempt to attract more manpower to its war with Ukraine. Such weaponisation functions through a few distinct institutional and legal mechanisms: granting citizenship as a reward for contracted military service and revoking acquired c…
Between a Knife and the Law
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among migration officials, this article explores the role of legal professionals and their work in migration bureaucracy in Tajikistan and Russia. It brings together the literature on the anthropology of bureaucracy and law to suggest lawyers in this bureaucracy attempt to maximize legal protection and promote the rule of law in Russia by engaging in various bureaucratic practices. It applies the concept of bureau-…
Subaltern citizenship
This article explores the perils of belonging among recently naturalized citizens in Russia from Tajikistan. As citizenship in Russia becomes accessible to ethnicized migrant workers, it becomes subalternized, a process broader than citizenship's neoliberalization. A racialized understanding of ethnicity, itself a legacy of the Soviet empire, shapes understandings of political membership in Russia. This has influenced both Russian migration legis…
In the shade of the chinar
This article evaluates the ongoing reconstruction of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, from the perspective of the affective registers it has elicited: from the despair of those who fondly remember the city’s earlier Soviet facade to those who have benefitted from the expansion of housing stock and green space across the city center. Exploring these positions and the role of statist conceptions of modernity, personal and political memories of …
The ‘mobile proletariat’
This article discusses the Soviet conceptualization of labor and its importance for state building and modernization in the USSR. The article helps to explicate the ways in which labor migration was an integral part of the socialist development project in regions such as Tajikistan. Through the case study of the Nurek Dam, it considers the processes by which the Soviet proletariat was produced through work, mobility, and socialization. It ultimat…
Tajikistan’s Bureaucratic Management of Exclusion
This article analyzes the consequences of the Russian Federation’s introduction of an electronic database that dynamically generates lists of individuals with reentry bans, with a focus on its effect on the Tajik migration management bureaucracy and Tajik migrant workers. Countering standard narratives about the passive citizenry of authoritarian states, it demonstrates how Tajik citizens change the emphasis in the bureaucracy through their every…
Tajikistan’s Bureaucratic Management of Exclusion
This article analyzes the consequences of the Russian Federation’s introduction of an electronic database that dynamically generates lists of individuals with reentry bans, with a focus on its effect on the Tajik migration management bureaucracy and Tajik migrant workers. Countering standard narratives about the passive citizenry of authoritarian states, it demonstrates how Tajik citizens change the emphasis in the bureaucracy through their every…
The ‘mobile proletariat’
This article discusses the Soviet conceptualization of labor and its importance for state building and modernization in the USSR. The article helps to explicate the ways in which labor migration was an integral part of the socialist development project in regions such as Tajikistan. Through the case study of the Nurek Dam, it considers the processes by which the Soviet proletariat was produced through work, mobility, and socialization. It ultimat…
Subaltern citizenship
This article explores the perils of belonging among recently naturalized citizens in Russia from Tajikistan. As citizenship in Russia becomes accessible to ethnicized migrant workers, it becomes subalternized, a process broader than citizenship's neoliberalization. A racialized understanding of ethnicity, itself a legacy of the Soviet empire, shapes understandings of political membership in Russia. This has influenced both Russian migration legis…
Tajikistan’s Bureaucratic Management of Exclusion
This article analyzes the consequences of the Russian Federation’s introduction of an electronic database that dynamically generates lists of individuals with reentry bans, with a focus on its effect on the Tajik migration management bureaucracy and Tajik migrant workers. Countering standard narratives about the passive citizenry of authoritarian states, it demonstrates how Tajik citizens change the emphasis in the bureaucracy through their every…
The ‘mobile proletariat’
This article discusses the Soviet conceptualization of labor and its importance for state building and modernization in the USSR. The article helps to explicate the ways in which labor migration was an integral part of the socialist development project in regions such as Tajikistan. Through the case study of the Nurek Dam, it considers the processes by which the Soviet proletariat was produced through work, mobility, and socialization. It ultimat…
In the shade of the chinar
This article evaluates the ongoing reconstruction of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, from the perspective of the affective registers it has elicited: from the despair of those who fondly remember the city’s earlier Soviet facade to those who have benefitted from the expansion of housing stock and green space across the city center. Exploring these positions and the role of statist conceptions of modernity, personal and political memories of …
Subaltern citizenship
This article explores the perils of belonging among recently naturalized citizens in Russia from Tajikistan. As citizenship in Russia becomes accessible to ethnicized migrant workers, it becomes subalternized, a process broader than citizenship's neoliberalization. A racialized understanding of ethnicity, itself a legacy of the Soviet empire, shapes understandings of political membership in Russia. This has influenced both Russian migration legis…
Living Migration in Central Asia
Weaponising naturalised citizenship
In the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian male citizens – especially those naturalised – became a target for large-scale drafting campaigns. This article argues that Russia weaponises citizenship in an attempt to attract more manpower to its war with Ukraine. Such weaponisation functions through a few distinct institutional and legal mechanisms: granting citizenship as a reward for contracted military service and revoking acquired c…
Between a Knife and the Law
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among migration officials, this article explores the role of legal professionals and their work in migration bureaucracy in Tajikistan and Russia. It brings together the literature on the anthropology of bureaucracy and law to suggest lawyers in this bureaucracy attempt to maximize legal protection and promote the rule of law in Russia by engaging in various bureaucratic practices. It applies the concept of bureau-…
Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Law (2 works)