Palestinization of Xinjiang
ma 10 jun
|MS Teams
Geopolitical Importance in China’s Ambitions, Current Developments and Ethnographical Challenges
Time & Location
10 jun 2024, 13:15 – 14:45
MS Teams
About the event
Meeting ID: 396 348 486 288
Password: 3nuMSL
at agnieszka.syliwoniuk-wapowska@sgh.waw.plREGISTER BY 9 JUNE
The diverse groups inhabiting the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) situated in China’s far northwest include the Turkic-speaking Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz that have in recent years been increasingly subjected to numerous securitization policies, such as high-tech surveillance, re-education and mass incarceration. The Party-State hardened policies in ways that affected the Uyghur minority group most prominently, but also had impacts on other China’s Muslim minorities, including the Hui people highlighting the ethnic differentiation among China’s Muslim minorities within CCP securitization strategies.
This seminar will offer an insight into the current situation in Xinjiang in a historical setting and touch upon the extreme difficulties faced by local people in their daily life, which inevitably make any research almost impossible. Concurrently, China’s visible influence in Central Asia comes at a human rights cost for Uyghurs and other…