Malika Bahovadinova

How officials in bureaucratic institutions in Tajikistan, though well-meaning, create a postcolonial, problematic "migrant" Making Migrants explores the postcolonial life of institutions and law in Tajikistan, finding that bureaucratic spaces render people who seek to work abroad into the subjective construct of a "migrant." Anthropologist Malika Bahovadinova argues that this category describes not an individual, but a broader process of...