China's High-Tech Repression Against Uyghurs: Novel Theoretical Insights

This book explores the socio-spatial impacts of China's high-tech repression against Uyghurs both within and beyond its borders. The study is built on surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions with the members of Uyghur diaspora in Türkiye. Findings indicate that high-tech repression minimizes the social life in East Turkestan. This type of governance aims to achieve a complete erasure of privacy and individual agency by strategically leveraging technology. While Uyghurs who escaped to Türkiye appear to gain relative freedom, our findings indicate that with China's transnational repression mostly applied through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), they live in a social space which functions as a quasi-spatial extension of East Turkestan.

examines the use of high-tech surveillance in the oppression of Uyghurs based on a large number of detailed surveys with Uyghurs in Turkey looks at how China continues to monitor to Uyghur population beyond Chinese borders

Autorentext

Lacin Idil Oztig is Professor at Yldz Technical University, Turkey.

Abdurresit Karluk is Professor at Ankara Hac Bayram Veli University, Turkey.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: An Overview of China's policies on Uyghurs.- Chapter 3: China's high-tech repression in East Turkestan.- Chapter 4: Case Selection, Research Methodology, and Field Notes.- Chapter 5: Surveys, In-depth Interviews, and Focus Group Interviews.- Chapter 6: Novel theoretical insights into China's repression within and beyond its borders.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.