Publication

This report sheds light on what an exclusive focus on regional security issues chooses to ignore: national policies of border control and issues of state stability are not only devised or debated in state capitals. They are, in fact, crucially informed by discourses taking place between state and periphery, between central elites and regional elites in the border region, between representatives of the state ethnic majority and members of local borderland groups. This report goes beyond more orthodox discussions of border issues in Central Asia by presenting the multiplicity of actors involved in actually implementing border control rather than focusing solely on what the centers of the states involved decide to present the outside world with.