What Explains the Rise of Ethnic Minority Tensions in China?

• In Event: 392 - Section on Asia and Asian America Roundtable Session (one-hour).
  In Refereed Roundtable: Table 03. Interrogating Race

Abstract

This article examines the increasing impact of internal migration on Uyghur and Han interactions in Xinjiang, China. It suggests that socio-economic factors such as segmented labour shares and unequal sectoral distribution in occupational categories, coupled with growing Han migration that intensifies spatial inequalities in urbanization patterns, have been a major reason behind the contemporary rise of ethnic minority tensions.

Author

• Reza Hasmath, University of Oxford