Work Slavery: Issues of Migration or Remembrance of Patriarchal Past in Central Asian Cinema

• In Event: Memory and Migration: Screen Visions of Past and Future Lives in Russian and Central Asian Cinema

Abstract

The theme of slavery, sexual and work-related, appears in cinema and TV serials of Central Asia in a variety of forms. Above all, in the context of migration, people move to find better work and end up in circumstances of exploitation, as is the case in Sergei Dvortsevoi's Aika, or Dastan Zhapar's Border Deal, or Mikhail Borodin's Convenience Store. They replace archaic forms of slavery narrated in earlier films, as Ali Khamraev's BoBaBu.

Author

• Gulnara Abikeyeva, Turan U (Kazakhstan)