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Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2020

Natalia Zotova Open the ORCID record for Natalia Zotova [Opens in a new window]  and
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Natalia Zotova*
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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**Corresponding author. Email: zotova.1@osu.edu
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Abstract

Russia remains the destination of choice for Tajik migrants. Its migration policies have profound implications for migrants’ legal status and capacity to remit and return home. This article draws on ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and explores how the enforcement of Russia’s immigration laws affects Tajik migrants and their families. By 2016, over 300,000 Tajik migrants were issued entry bars (zapret na v’ezd) for three or more years for two or more administrative offenses, including the lack of a work permit or a residential registration and a traffic violation. Migration and the transnational lifestyle increase agency among Tajik men and women, informing gender transformations. Entry bars produce temporary constraints to spatial and social mobility as migrants readjust to well-defined gender roles in their home country. We note how immigration laws affect men and women in different ways, contextualizing the gendered effects of entry bars through the lens of gender relations and understandings of masculinity and femininity in Tajikistan. We argue that the constraints to migrants’ mobility developed by Russian migration policies inform the reconstitution of gender relations in Tajikistan.

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migrationimmigration lawsgenderCentral AsiaTajikistanRussia

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 48 , Special Issue 4: Special Issue on Migrant Rights, Agency, and Vulnerability , July 2020 , pp. 675 - 689
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2020

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