LECTURE- Labor Migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Susan Thieme, Sept. 12, 2007, Bishkek
Posted by: Alexander I. Pugachev <pugachev_a@mail.auca.kg>
The Social Research Center at American University of Central Asia
(www.src.auca.kg) presents:
Lecture: Osh-Bishkek-Almaty-Moscow and return? How Different Generations
Sustain Their Livelihoods in Multilocal Settings
Presenter: Susan Thieme (PhD in Geography), University of Zurich,
Switzerland
Time: 5 p.m.
Date: September 12th
Place: Room 315, AUCA
Synopsis: Bishkek and cities in Russia and Kazakhstan are major
destinations for labour migrants from rural South Kyrgyzstan. Next to
search for a better income, younger men and women also migrate for
education and to escape traditions like early marriage. Children and
elderly people are left behind. In Kazakhstan and Russia the majority
of migrants work de facto illegal on territory, where they would have
had the same citizenship and rights only some years ago, including all
stigma and risks for their livelihoods illegality implies. However,
the way in which migrants appropriate their working and living spaces
strongly depends on gender, age and the cities they have been migrated
to. While elderly often feel that this separation of the traditional
family is only temporary, younger people start placing their lives at
other places than where they originally come from. This lecture will
look into the multilocal setting of families and at the different and
sometimes controversial perceptions and experiences of migration and
their consequences for different generations involved.
Bio: Susan Thieme holds PhD in Geography from University of Zurich,
Switzerland. Her doctoral research focused on labor migration from
Nepal to India and selected aspects of migrants' daily lives, such as
working and living conditions, management of loans and savings, and
remittance transfer. Since 2006 she is leading a project, "Sustaining
Livelihoods in Multilocal Settings", looking at risks and potential of
migration for people's livelihoods in Central Asia and South Asia.
Susan Thieme works at the Geography Department, University of Zurich.
In the past, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Sussex Center for
Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK.
How to register: Please send e-mail to pss@mail.auca.kg with your name.
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