Manipulating the Census: Ethnic Minorities in the Nationalizing States of Central AsiaFootnote*

* The author would like to thank Marlène Laruelle, Alain Blum, Aaron Erlich and the anonymous reviewer of the journal for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.

Footnote1

1. This article is the result of a field research conducted from October 2006 to May 2007. Research was funded by the French Ministry of Education and Research and the French Institute of Studies on Central Asia (IFEAC) in Tashkent. A first draft was presented at the 12th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), 12–14 April 2007, under the title “The Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Population Census: A Comparative Approach in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.”

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