She is currently working on the second book on Migration and Islam in Russia. She edited a book with a colleague from Lund University titled: “ Labour, Mobility and Informal practices in Russia: Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space” published in 2021 by Routledge. She has been writing on the topics of migration, entrepreneurship, informal economies, gender, border studies, identity and inter-ethnic relations among many other topics which she published in such journals as Inner Asia, Communist and post-Communist studies, Sociology of Islam, Central Asian Affairs, Central Asian Survey, Anthropology of Middle East among other journals. Her book based on her PhD thesis is out with Routledge in 2016 under the title `Migration and Identity: the Uzbek Experience`.

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

    University, Munich, Germany
    Habilitating candidate and Lecturer

  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

    Research Institute, Halle, Germany
    Affiliated Researcher

  • Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography

    Research Institute, Leipzig, Germany
    Researcher

  • George Washington University

    University, Washington D.C., United States
    Affiliated Researcher

  • Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde

    Other, Leipzig, Germany
    Senior Researcher

Research

Criminalizing mobilities: Exit restrictions in post‐Soviet Central Asia

Authors Rano Turaeva, Rano Turaeva
Year 2023
Journal Name International Migration
1 Journal Article

Capitalising Precarity: Wellbeing of Migrants in Russia

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Labor and Society
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
2 Journal Article

Propiska regime regulating mobility and migration in post-Soviet cities

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2022
Journal Name Cities
Citations (WoS) 4
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
3 Journal Article

Online Discourses in Post-Soviet Media: The Threat of the Islamic State in Central Asia

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2022
Journal Name Central Asian Affairs
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
4 Journal Article

Migration within and from Uzbekistan

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2022
Book Title Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
5 Book Chapter

Muslim Orders in Russia: Trade Networks and Hijama Healing

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2020
Journal Name Nationalities Papers
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8 Journal Article

Imagined mosque communities in Russia: Central Asian migrants in Moscow

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2018
Journal Name Asian Ethnicity
9 Journal Article

Women as Change Agents

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2018
Book Title Women of Asia
10 Book Chapter

Biosocial body of ethno-religious boundaries in a Tibetan marriage

Authors Dan Smyer Yü
Year 2018
Book Title Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands
11 Book Chapter

Kelin in Central Asia

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2017
Book Title The Family in Central Asia
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
14 Book Chapter

Mobile entrepreneurs in post-Soviet Central Asia

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2014
Journal Name Communist and Post-Communist Studies
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17 Journal Article

From Rhetoric to Identification: Miscommunication in Inter-ethnic Contact

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2013
Journal Name Anthropology of the Middle East
19 Journal Article

Migration and Identity in Central Asia

Authors Rano Turaeva
Year 2015
Journal Name
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22 Journal Article
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