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Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang

In: Global Responsibility to Protect
Author: Michael Clarke1
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  • 1 Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Visiting Fellow, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, michael.clarke@anu.edu.au
Online Publication Date:
16 Feb 2021
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Abstract

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (xuar) is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today characterised by extra-judicial detention of Uyghurs in ‘re-education’ centres, pervasive surveillance, and repression of Uyghur ethnic identity. While Beijing frames such draconian measures as necessary ‘counter-terrorism’ measures, the intersection between concern for the ‘welfare’ of subject populations and the desire to eradicate ‘defective’ elements of cultural identity central to the ‘re-education’ system in Xinjiang betray the fundamentally colonial nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s (ccp) endeavours in the region.

Title:
Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang
Article Type:
Discussion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-984X-13010002
Language:
English
Pages:
9–19
Keywords:
China; Xinjiang; Uyghur; re-education; colonialism; cultural genocide
In:
Global Responsibility to Protect
In:
Volume 13: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
E-ISSN:
1875-984X
Print ISSN:
1875-9858
Subjects:
Human Rights, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, International Organizations, International Law

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