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‘We sit and wait’: migration, mobility and temporality in Guliston, southern Tajikistan

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:52 authored by Diana Ibanez-TiradoDiana Ibanez-Tirado
This article analyses how people in Guliston, southern Tajikistan, conceive of ‘waiting’ both for labour-migrants to return from Russia, and to realise the projects that these migrants and their families envision. In Guliston people talk about two contradictory forms of waiting: on the one hand, they associate waiting with sitting and doing nothing; on the other, they equally emphasise the active roles they play to keep their village full of vitality while they wait for their migrant-relatives to return. Stressing the interdependencies between temporality and mobility, and the experiences of time and place by those who stay in their villages and those who migrate, this article argues that people in Guliston practise ‘waiting’ as active and creative processes that figure prominently in their production of specific forms of sociality and community, and their village as a dynamic place at the centre of a circulation of caregiving.

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Trust, Global Traders and Cheap Commodities in a Chinese International City (TRODITIES); G1723; EUROPEAN UNION; 669132

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Current Sociology

ISSN

0011-3921

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

2

Volume

67

Page range

315-333

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Asia Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-09-11

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-09-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-09-11

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