Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- About the Authors -- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle -- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle -- Contemporary International Migration in Central Asia and the Rise of Migrants’ Diasporas and Networks / Elena Y. Sadovskaya -- Labor Migration During the 2008–9 Global Economic Crisis / Erica Marat -- To Stay or Not to Stay: The Global Economic Crisis and Return Migration to Tajikistan / Saodat Olimova -- Kazakhstan: Central Asia’s New Migration Crossroads / Marlene Laruelle -- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle -- Internal Migration in Kyrgyzstan: A Geographical and Sociological Study of Rural Migration / Aida Aaly Alymbaeva -- Socio-Economic Migrations and Health Issues Resulting from the Tajik Civil War / Sophie Hohmann -- Azerbaijanis in Russia: An Imagined Diaspora? / Adeline Braux -- Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow: Public Policies, Migratory Strategies, and Associative Networks / Asel Dolotkeldieva -- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle -- Former Colonists On The Move: The Migration of Russian-Speaking Populations / Sebastien Peyrouse -- The Central Asian States and their Co-Ethnics from Abroad: Diaspora Policies and Repatriation Programs / Olivier Ferrando -- From Uzbek Qishlok to Tajik Samarkand: Rural Depopulation as a Migration of Identity / Sophie Massot -- Economic Migrations from Uzbekistan to Moscow, Seoul, and New York: Sacrifice or Rite of Passage? / Sophie Massot -- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle -- Migration, Masculinity, and Transformations of Social Space in the Sokh Valley, Uzbekistan / Madeleine Reeves -- Transition, Migration, Capitalism: Female Uzbek Shuttle Traders in Istanbul / Luisa Piart -- The Feminization of Tajik Labor Migration to Russia / Nafisa Khusenova -- Projects and Migratory Strategies of Women Belonging to the Tashkent Intelligentsia / Stéphanie Belouin -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations due to social upheavals over the last twenty years impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identities; and gender relations in Central Asia. This volume raises the importance of internal migrations, those at a regional, intra-Central Asian, level, labor migrations to Russia, and carries us as far away to the Uzbek migrants based in Istanbul, New York, or Seoul, as well as to the young women of Tashkent who head to Germany or France, and to the Germans, Greeks, and Jews of Central Asia who have returned to their “ethnic homelands”. Contributors include Aida Aaly Alimbaeva, Stéphanie Belouin, Adeline Braux, Asel Dolotkeldieva, Olivier Ferrando, Sophie Hohmann, Nafisa Khusenova, Erica Marat, Sophie Massot, Saodat Olimova, Sébastien Peyrouse, Luisa Piart, Madeleine Reeves, Elena Sadovskaya.