Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Mongolian-Kazakh Returnees: Repatriation, Citizenship, and National Belonging In Kazakhstan

研究生，安娜Genina，在Alaina Lemon博士的指导下工作，将对日益增长的新的移民回流现象进行研究。这项研究将在哈萨克斯坦进行，哈萨克斯坦政府正式鼓励遣返。然而，哈萨克人从蒙古返回他们的历史家园产生了意想不到的后果，因为国家政策并不总是与当地的优先事项很好地联系在一起。这种情况引发了关于什么是族裔、归属和公民身份的新的激烈讨论，使之成为一个极好的机会，可以对返回移徙及其社会和政治影响进行微观审查。在哈萨克斯坦，公民的概念和做法是通过分析的话语结构的亲属关系和好客，这被认为是哈萨克游牧遗产的重要组成部分照亮。因此，研究者将使用文化和语言人类学的方法来探讨亲属和好客的概念及其与公民身份和民族归属的思想和实践的关系。她将进行参与观察，与当地家庭生活在一起，并在返回蒙古时为其他返回者提供住宿。她将与新返回者、其他当地居民和官员进行访谈;收集移民和生活史;监测和分析媒体报道。这项研究很重要，因为在世界各地都可以看到返回移徙的现象。社会科学可以帮助解释当地的身份和实践之间的关系，以及这些如何连接或无法连接到更大的框架内，如公民身份，民族和国家的象征性和实际安置的人。本研究也将有助于研究生的教育。

Graduate student, Anna Genina, working under the direction of Dr. Alaina Lemon, will undertake research on the growing new phenomenon of return migration. The study will be carried out in Kazakhstan, where the government of Kazakhstan officially encourages repatriation. However, the return of Kazakhs from Mongolia to their historic homeland has had unexpected consequences, because state policies have not always connected well with local priorities. This situation has provoked radical new discussions of what constitutes ethnicity, belonging, and citizenship, making it an excellent opportunity for a micro-scale examination of return migration and its social and political effects. In Kazakhstan, conceptions and practices of citizenship are illuminated through analysis of discursive constructions of kinship and hospitality, which are regarded as essential parts of Kazakh nomadic heritage. Therefore, the researcher will use the methods of both cultural and linguistic anthropology to explore conceptions of kinship and hospitality and their relation to ideas and practices of citizenship and national belonging. She will do participant observation, living with a local family and accomanying other returnees on visits back to Mongolia. She will conduct interviews with new returnees, other local residents, and officials; collect migration and life histories; and monitor and analyze media accounts. This research is important because return migration is found throughout the world. Social science can help to explain the relationship between locally situated identifications and practices and how those connect or fail to connect with the symbolic and practical emplacement of people within larger frameworks, such as citizenship, nationhood, and state. The research also will contribute to the education of a graduate student.