While labor migration from Central Asia to the Russian Federation has been well documented and researched internationally, the equally important issue of internal migration has been largely ignored. Localized migratory processes should be recognized as vital factors in the region’s long-term social, economic, and security development. This article looks at migration from a domestic Kyrgyz perspective. It discusses the general effects of rural out-migration, the remittance “myth,” the effects on broken migrant families, hyper-urbanization in so-called novostroikas, and the less-discussed issue of creeping migration.
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Interview, Bishkek, November 2011.
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Interview, Bishkek, November 2011.
Interview, Bishkek, November 2011.
Interview, Bishkek, May 2013.
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J. Jeenbaeva, “Intersectoral Policy Making in Creating the New Middle Class: A Case Study of Internal Migrants of Bishkek Engaged in Informal Sector,” in Kyrgyzstan Today: Policy Briefs on Civil Society, Migration, Islam, and Corruption (Bishkek: auca – Social Research Center, 2008), 38–45.
Interview, Bishkek, May 2013.
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Interview, Bishkek, November 2011.
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While labor migration from Central Asia to the Russian Federation has been well documented and researched internationally, the equally important issue of internal migration has been largely ignored. Localized migratory processes should be recognized as vital factors in the region’s long-term social, economic, and security development. This article looks at migration from a domestic Kyrgyz perspective. It discusses the general effects of rural out-migration, the remittance “myth,” the effects on broken migrant families, hyper-urbanization in so-called novostroikas, and the less-discussed issue of creeping migration.
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