The Xinjiang Data Project
Press InvestigationUyghur ‘caretaking’ and the isolation of re-educationIn Uyghur society, lending money is more than capital exchange, it's part of a practice that social theorist AbdouMaliq Simone refers to as “taking care.” In Xinjiang, as China's "People's War on Terror" accelerated, money transfers across international boundaries were seen as a possible sign of extremism — just another way that Uyghurs were cut off from their support networks and isolated from one another.Sep 2, 2020, SupChina
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