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China’s crackdown on the Uighurs: A carefully researched study of Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang

  • October 19, 2020
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(Financial Times) A newly renovated hall in the largest museum in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang region in China, hosts an installation that makes little sense for a…
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The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

  • September 14, 2020
  • Sean Roberts
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Roberts: The “terrorism” label on Uyghurs has taken on a certain kind of “dehumanized” connotation

  • April 19, 2019
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(Michigan Daily) Since the late months of 2017, news media has increasingly published more information about the detainment of ethnic minority groups in China’s “re-education” camps. These internment camps have been…
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Roberts: The Chinese state needs to be in complete control [in Xinjiang] and so they just keep hammering the nail harder

  • December 19, 2018
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Majlis Podcast with Sean Roberts: The Repercussions Of Beijing’s Policies In Xinjiang

  • December 11, 2018
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Roberts: We felt it critical for the scholarly community to also take a stance on this issue

  • November 27, 2018
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(Yahoo News) A global coalition of nearly 300 scholars on Monday called on Beijing to abolish its “transformation through education” campaign against China’s ethnic Uygur population, and appealed for increased diplomatic…
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Roberts: The Belt and Road is part of the reason that there’s such an urgency to clean up the Uyghur population in Xinjiang at the present moment

  • November 16, 2018
  • Sean Roberts
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The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs

  • March 13, 2018
  • Sean Roberts
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Roberts: Recent events are suggesting that the Chinese state is creating a security state within Xinjiang like never seen before

  • February 24, 2017
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