Open AccessEconomic Adaptation of Resettlement Farms in the Context of the State Migration Policy to Turkestan in the Second Half of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries
Author(s) -
Yu.N. Tsyryapkina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
izvestiâ altajskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1561-9451
pISSN - 1561-9443
DOI - 10.14258/izvasu(2021)6-13
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , solidarity , state (computer science) , context (archaeology) , population , ambivalence , political science , empire , geography , history , political economy , ethnology , development economics , sociology , ancient history , law , demography , economics , archaeology , politics , psychology , social psychology , finance , algorithm , computer science , payment
In this article the author examines the process of economic adaptation of resettlement farms in the context of the imperial strategy of attracting the Orthodox population to the region. The article proves that the migration movement in Turkestan in the second half of the 19th — early 20th century was of great state importance and the settlers acted as agents of colonization; belonging to the Orthodox community became the basis of solidarity for the resettlement community. Based on an analysis of unpublished archival sources, the author revealed that the empire used the religious identity of the settlers, which became a mechanism for the state selection of settlers for migration in the region for effective build a migration policy to Turkestan. The author concludes that the state policy towards sectarians and Old Believers was ambivalent: their migration to the region was restricted by legal mechanisms and at the same time their settlement was allowed and not prosecuted because of the high success rate of economic farms.