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Cultural Assimilation and Economic Segregation

Economic Segregation and Cultural Assimiliation

In East Turkistan, China is actively promoting the "Sinafication" of Uyghurs, whereby cultural, linguistic, and religious aspects of Uyghur culture are outlawed, banned, or otherwise discouraged. At the same time, China's putative "Develop the West" Campaign," while pumping millions of dollars into East Turkistan, does little to improve the life of most Uyghurs. Jobs are being created, but those jobs are given to those from China's Eastern provinces who are given substantial financial incintives to move to East Turkistan.

Trafficked Uyghur Children May Not See Home Again

Published 05/3/2005 | Cultural Assimilation and Economic Segregation , Headlines

Thousands of children belonging to Muslim families in China's northwest are being cared for each year in a regional rescue center while authorities try to track down their parents, RFA's Uyghur service has learned.

The Dragon in Central Asia: Fighting Thirst, and Militants

Published 11/24/2004 | Cultural Assimilation and Economic Segregation , Headlines

Since China's annexation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 1950, Beijing has pursued policies that have put considerable pressure on the local environment.

China Imposes Chinese Language on Uyghur Schools

Published 03/16/2004 | Cultural Assimilation and Economic Segregation , Headlines

The Chinese government is planning sweeping educational changes in the northwestern region of Xinjiang which will force around 50 ethnic minority schools to merge with Chinese schools, imposing Chinese as the language of instruction on Uyghur and other minority schoolchildren, RFA's Uyghur service reports.

China's Uyghurs Lose Out to Development

Published 12/19/2003 | Cultural Assimilation and Economic Segregation , Headlines

For the last three years, China has poured billions of dollars into a campaign to redevelop its poorer western provinces, but native Uyghurs are seeing few of the promised benifits.