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The Obligation to Migrate and the Impulse to Narrate: Soviet Narratives of Forced Migration in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus

Migration Ethics and Human Rights, ed. Ray Jureidini (Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming)

36 Pages Posted: 3 Jun 2019

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Rebecca Ruth Gould

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Date Written: May 12, 2019

Abstract

This essay engages with the refashioning of the hijra narrative in the literatures of the deported peoples of the Caucasus. I shed light on how early Islamic concepts of migration have shaped local histories and created diasporic identities for Caucasus peoples who are at present scattered across the Middle East. Amid a series of forced migrations to Ottoman lands, displaced peoples from the Caucasus adapted the hijra narrative to 19th and 20th century contexts. Yet in adapting it, they retained its core features: the story of forced displacement and the longing to live in an environment where they could freely practice their religion.

Keywords: migration, Caucasus, hijra, displacement, exile

Suggested Citation

Gould, Rebecca Ruth, The Obligation to Migrate and the Impulse to Narrate: Soviet Narratives of Forced Migration in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus (May 12, 2019). Migration Ethics and Human Rights, ed. Ray Jureidini (Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3386850

Rebecca Ruth Gould (Contact Author)

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street, Ru
London, WC1H 0XG
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HOME PAGE: http://https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/rebecca-gould

Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies ( email )

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Cambridge, 02138
United States

HOME PAGE: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about-us/people/rebecca-gould

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