The Fortress and the Frontier: Mobility, Culture, and Class in Almaty and Astana

Alima Bissenova

Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, vol. 69, issue 4, 642-667

Abstract: As the seat of the Kazakh government and a booming city since 1998, Astana has attracted hundreds of thousands of migrants. As a cultural and financial capital, Almaty has also continued to boom, drawing comparable numbers of migrants from different regions of Kazakhstan. However, varying historical trajectories and historically constructed notions of the urban and rural, as articulated by the cultural elites and policy-makers, as well as different preparedness of the government for migration flows in the 1990s and the 2000s in Almaty and Astana respectively, have resulted in quite diverse attitudes toward mobility and different perceptions about how urban order should be achieved.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1325445

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