Tracing the Labor Migration Treadmill
A Global Political Economy Analysis of Central Asians on the Move
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12426664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anni Kangas (0000-0002-5794-5625, Tampere University, corresponding author), Anonymous Artist (Anonymous Artist has chosen not to appear with their name to ensure their personal safety and that of their family) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485-512 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxae036 |
| OpenAlex | W4406653077 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
The migration corridor between Central Asia and Russia is one of the busiest in the world. In this article, we intend to answer the following question: which political economy dynamics animate labor migration from Central Asia to Russia? To do so, we provide a sketch of the labor migration treadmill by detailing its structural and “cruelly optimistic” affective logics. We identify four structural themes in the treadmill: (1) dispossession, (2) politics of belonging and racialization, (3) gender and patriarchal dynamics, and (4) externalization of social reproduction. A scrutiny of these themes shows that the treadmill of Central Asian labor migration is grounded in a specific but globally resonant political economic condition of “post-Soviet precarity.” This article is based on solicited journals written by migrant workers and analyzed jointly by an artist and an academic. Consequently, the interplay of drawings and textual narration is integral to the article’s logic of inquiry
Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Political science · Politics · Tracing · Computer Science · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Russia and Soviet political economy
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Sri Lanka’s Remittance Economy
The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
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The limits of strategic citizenship
Capitalising Precarity
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Russia as a New Immigration Country
Russian Nation-building from Yel'tsin to Medvedev
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Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour
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Solicited diary methods with urban refugee women
Producing state capacity through corruption
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The territorial trap
Migration and the invisible economies of care
Entries and omissions
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |