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Constructing the Uyghur Diaspora: Identity Politics and the Transnational Uyghur Community

Author : Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant

Published in: The Uyghur Community

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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This study analyzes how the Uyghur diasporic identity and activities evolved through various mobilizing discourses, practices, and frameworks effectuated by the elite. The activities of the Uyghur diaspora during three significant time periods were observed. The first period covers the mobilization practices of the diaspora leaders in Turkey from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The second period covers the diasporic mobilization efforts in the 1990s in Turkey and Europe, and the final period covers 2000 until now. Such an analysis allowed me to discern how mobilization practices and frameworks varied over time according to changing political opportunities in different host states. The chapter is based on fieldwork conducted in Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, and France over a one-year period.

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Title: Constructing the Uyghur Diaspora: Identity Politics and the Transnational Uyghur Community
Author: Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Book: The Uyghur Community
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-53144-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-52297-9

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52297-9_5

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