Everyday Transnational Repression / CAPE 3.0 launch

Tue, 15 September 2020 16:00 – 17:30 BST https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-transnational-repression-cape-30-launch-tickets-117024911661 Speakers: Dr Fiona Adamson, Reader in International Relations at SOAS Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham Dr Marcus Michaelsen, Senior and Postdoctoral Researcher at LSTS Research Group Dr Dana Moss, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame Professor John Heathershaw, University of Exeter […]

The Central Asian Political Exiles Project Newsletter #4 Summer/Autumn 2019

Message from the Team Welcome to the Summer/Autumn edition of your Central Asia Political Exiles Newsletter. In this issue, we discuss critical aspects of repression, corruption in Central Asian and Eurasian regions as well as the future of liberal international order against rising global authoritarianism. This edition also features discussion and workshop from the ESCAS […]

Transnational Politics of Central Asia and Beyond – 26 June, 2019

ESCAS 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop

ESCAS 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop Wednesday 26 June 2019 Upper Lounge at Reed Hall, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter This workshop is part of the Central Asian Political Exiles project and is organised by Saipira Furstenberg and John Heathershaw.  The concept note for the workshop is here: The Transnational Politics of Central Asia and beyond (PDF). […]

The Central Asian Political Exiles Project Newsletter #3 Autumn 2018

Message from the Team Welcome to the autumn edition of your Central Asia Political Exiles Newsletter. In this issue, we discuss critical aspects on terrorism and radicalization from Central Asia, human rights, participatory governance, repression and corruption in Central Asian and Eurasian regions. We would like to bring to your attention our future events on […]

Not In Our Name: multiple causes for reflection

A new documentary by RFE/RL provides an opportunity to reflect on the complexities of the recruitment of Central Asians to violent extremism and the limitations of research and policy-making on the topic On Monday 6 November, I had the privilege of attending the UK premiere at Chatham House of the new RFE/RL documentary Not In […]

Tajikistan: No Freedom beyond this point?

    Saipira Furstenberg and John Heathershaw offer reflections on their visit to the OSCE (HDIM) meeting in Warsaw, 2018.   On September 10, we visited Europe’s annual largest human rights and democracy conference, the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw. HDIM is a two-week session, bringing together 57 OSCE participating states, and nongovernmental representatives, international […]

ESCAS 2019 pre-conference workshop, University of Exeter 26 June, 2019

      Applications now open for the ESCAS 2019 pre-conference workshop! University of Exeter  26th of June 2019   Call for Papers: Transnational Politics of Russia and Eurasia   This one-day ESCAS pre-conference workshop, hosted by Exeter Central Asian Studies, aims to discuss the relationship between Russian and Eurasian exiles and diaspora communities and […]

Central Asia Political Exiles Newsletter #2 — Summer 2018

Message from the Team Welcome to the summer edition of your Central Asia Political Exiles Newsletter. In this issue, we feature the launch of the second edition of the CAPE database and a number of reports on the deteriorating space for human rights and free media in parts of the Central Asian region. We link […]

Preventing Transnational Repression, Protecting Human Rights Ideas for the Future?

Transnational repression takes place where authoritarian regimes repress former citizens beyond their borders and so outside of their sovereign territory. The Central Asian Political Exiles (CAPE) database documents this repression against political exiles that have fled from fear of persecution within the Central Asian states. The authorities of these countries may then track, target and […]

Tajikistan’s Imprisonment of Journalists: Khayrullo Mirsaidov and the question of Western (ir)responsibility

In recent years, the repression of civil society, the media and academia has starkly increased in Tajikistan[1]. A number of prominent Tajik scholars and journalists have been detained in Tajikistan, forced to flee, and/ or targeted or threatened with long-term imprisonment. Steve Swerdlow, a Central Asian researcher at Human Rights Watch, and Michael Anderson, an […]

Resilience and Repression of Political Islam in Central Asia: Muhiddin Kabiri at Chatham House

On the 20th June 2018, the Exeter Central Asian Studies network were delighted to be joined by Muhiddin Kabiri at the “Political Exiles and Transnational Repression in Central Asia and Beyond” workshop. Held at Chatham House, and formed as a cooperative between ExCAS, Chatham House and the European Social and Economic Research Council, the morning […]

Political Exiles and Transnational Repression in Central Asia and Beyond

Chatham House, 20 June

Venue: Chatham House, 10 St James‘s Square, London Date: 20 June 2018, 9:30–13:00 This workshop at Chatham House will include academics, activists, lawyers and exiles themselves.  We are delighted to say that Muhiddin Kabiri, leader of the banned Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, will be able to join us via video connection. 9:30-11:00: Session 1 […]