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This paper explores the securityscapes of various social groups in urban spaces of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and production of securityscapes by everyday practices. The authors apply the concept of securityscapes, inspired by the work of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, to assess how various groups of people deal with security issues in their daily lives. They understand securityscape as ‘imagined world’ of security and insecurity that goad and structure the lives of people as they go about their daily business. Based on this understanding, they then investigate the securityscapes of the Pamiri people in Khorugh in south-eastern Tajikistan, of the Uzbek minority in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, of the ‘Luli’ or ‘gypsy’ people on the outskirts of the town, and of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.