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Manipulating the Census: Ethnic Minorities in the Nationalizing States of Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Olivier Ferrando
Olivier Ferrando*
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Sciences Po, Institute of Political Sciences, Paris, France. Email: olivier.ferrando@sciences-po.org
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Since independence, Central Asian republics have been facing the paradox of developing nation-state ideologies on the basis of a multinational population, inherited from their colonial and Soviet past. This ideology claims historical ownership over the territory, the so-called homeland (rodina in Russian or vatan in local languages). Central Asian governments do perceive the need to assert their sovereign rights on the land. In political terms, it becomes a quest to ensure that the territories claimed contain a majority of titular members of the nation and a minority of other ethnic groups. The census appears here to be the key instrument to measure people and legitimate the power of the titular nation.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 489 - 520
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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