Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis

Bringing together studies from North America, Türkiye, Europe, Japan and Australia, this book explores the educational and cultural activities of Uyghur communities in diaspora, examining various projects established for the maintenance and promotion of Uyghur culture and identity, and the regional issues faced by different communities.

Rebecca Clothey is Professor and Head of Drexel University’s Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. Her current research on maintenance and transmission of Uyghur culture spans several countries, including China, the United States, and Türkiye. She was a visiting scholar at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul in 2018-2019 and at Xinjiang Normal University in 2014. Dr. Clothey has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships for her research, one to China and one to Uzbekistan, a Spencer Fellowship to study community-based schools in Argentina, and an NEH-ARIT Fellowship to study cultural transmission among the Uyghur diaspora in Türkiye.

Dilmurat Mahmut obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from McGill University. He is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University and a course lecturer at McGill University, Canada. His research interests include Muslim identity, education, violent extremism, and immigrant/refugee integration in the West. His publications include ＂Conflicting Perceptions of Education in Canada: The Perspectives of Well-educated Muslim Uyghur Immigrants＂ in Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, 2021; ＂Lost in Translation: Exploring Uyghur Identity in Canada,＂ in Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2021 (with Waite); Revisiting Muslim Identity and Islamophobia, 2018 (book chapter).