Migration Strategies and Human-Made Disasters: Considering Tajik Migration Policy Initiatives in Tashkorgan from the Perspective of Disaster Anthropology

Abstract This article examines the Pamiri Tajik population in China at southwesternmost corner of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Prefecture and their struggles during numerous local natural human-made disasters over past decade. It explores, from point view, disaster recovery policies that function as a disguise for homogenization-oriented state-building initiatives. how people have been reacting to coping with related relocation policy initiatives they are increasingly facing is desecration homeland destruction traditional livelihood. The fieldwork findings reported based on 12 years throughout Xinjiang, borderlands (both region Tajikistan Tashkurgan County China) well lowland sedentarization area Rabot resettlement township Abat edge Taklimakan desert.