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Caught in the crossfire: The Uyghurs in America’s propaganda war with China

Human Geography, 2022
The Uyghur people of China's far west are at the centre of a propaganda war between the United States and China. Western media claims about their treatment may well be exaggerated, but the oppression of the Uyghurs is real.
S. Gilbert
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Identity of Kazakhstan’s Uyghurs: Migration, Homeland, and Language

Central Asian Affairs, 2021
This article examines the ethno-national identity of Uyghurs in Kazakhstan, which, during the period of independence, has been undergoing a complex process of transformation from ‘Sovietness’ to ‘Kazakhstanness.’ This transformation is shaped by the ...
A. Kamalov
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Sinicizing the Uyghurs

Peace Review, 2016
Since imperial times, China has been conceptualized as a civilization and not as a political nation-state.
J. Ang
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Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
Recent years have witnessed burgeoning scholarly interest in how authoritarian states use transnational repression to intimidate and punish their citizens abroad.
L. I. Oztig, Abdürreşit Celil Karluk
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Distinguishing three distinct biogeographic regions with an in‐house developed 39‐AIM‐InDel panel and further admixture proportion estimation for Uyghurs

Electrophoresis, 2019
In the forensic field, ancestry‐informative markers (AIMs) showing remarkable allele frequency discrepancies can be useful in deducing the likely ancestral origin of a person or estimating the ancestry component proportions of an admixed population or ...
Q. Lan, Chun-mei Shen, Xiaoye Jin, Yuxin Guo, T. Xie, Chong Chen, Wei Cui, Yating Fang, Guang Yang, Bofeng Zhu   +9 more
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The Great Dispossession. Uyghurs between Civilizations

, 2020
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have worked since 1986, has become increasingly unstable in recent decades.
I. Bellér-Hann, Chris Hann
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Uyghurs in China: Personal Testimony of a Uyghur Surgeon

2021
Dr Enver Tohti Bughda is a qualified medical surgeon and a passionate advocate for Uyghur rights. Having been ordered to remove organs from an executed prisoner, Enver has since taken up a major role in the campaign against forced organ harvesting and is determined to bring China’s darkest secret to light.
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Mechanisms of ethnic internationalization: The Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongols

Asian Ethnicity, 2019
This article – by looking at selected cases of the ethnic Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongols in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), officially a unitary multinational state – proves that domestic ethnic conflicts have the potential to internationalize and ...
Erik Durneika
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The Uyghurs: Making a Nation

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2018
The Uyghurs comprise a Turkic-speaking and predominantly Muslim nationality of China, with communities living in the independent republics of Central Asia that date to the 19th century, and now a global diaspora. As in the case of many national histories,
David Brophy
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Uyghurs vs. Uyghurs: Fragmented Identities in Contemporary Xinjiang

2019
The aim of this chapter is to show how fast transformations in Xinjiang socio-economic environment are impacting Uyghur identity. The traditional, mainly rural, society of Xinjiang is understood in the framework of the broader goal of building a national identity.
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