The Sedentarization and Gentrification in Post-Nomadic Districts

Katarzyna Golik

The Sedentarization and Gentrification in Post-Nomadic Districts

Publication date: 2021

Ethnographies, 2021, Vol 49 Issue 1-2, pp. 37 - 62

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.21.004.14126

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The Sedentarization and Gentrification in Post-Nomadic Districts

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This paper presents a preliminary study on migrant’s adaptation in the post-nomadic settlements inside Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar and China’s Nantun (Evenk Autonomous Banner or Ewenke Zizhiqi) using specific examples of education and housing. The research fields were selected in order to find urbanised areas with herders migrating to the city, and where such movement is numerous enough to establish districts or at least impact the urban culture. Therefore the context differs from the situations when fewer families enter a relatively large settlement and have to adjust to the found conditions. At first glance the recently urbanised areas might seem a provisional imitation of the city, as a result of the century-long development. The migrants define their culture-based settlement. The shared condition of the selected settlements is the status of a post-nomadic migration destination. Therefore there is an expectation of some shared similarities in city-life adaptation. Presenting such exemplary districts illustrates the interesting social dynamics in the post-nomadic cities. Among the similarities of the formation of the post-nomadic settings, we find some common mechanisms shaping social dynamics in migration, then community foundation. They arise even in the context of exceptionally diverse frameworks of state urban policies. We will also discuss gentrification processes in newly emerged districts and their impact on the cityscape.

* The article is a result of the fieldworks within the framework of a research grant titled “Kinship and Sedentarization in Central Asian Urban Areas of Hailar, Ulan-Ude and Ulaanbaatar”, Research grant from the National Science Centre, OPUS 13, 2017/25/B/HS3/00675.

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China, Mongolia, post-nomadism, urbanisation, national minorities, local communities, Inner Asia, education, gentrification

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Information: Ethnographies, 2021, Vol 49 Issue 1-2, pp. 37 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.21.004.14126

Article type: Original article

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The Sedentarization and Gentrification in Post-Nomadic Districts

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The Sedentarization and Gentrification in Post-Nomadic Districts

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Katarzyna Golik

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9161-8222

Polish Academy of Sciences
Poland

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