The Expert is a Country Expert and academic with extensive fieldwork expeirience and providing expert reports (100+) for more than 40 firms in the UK, US, Netherlands, and Canada with areas of expertise such as but not limited to:
- Authentication documents originating from countries of expertise
- Country reports on the indicated countries of expertise
- Minority groups, religious groups
- Political, social and cultural groups: LGBT
- Organized crime and mafia, state crime
- Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups
- Human rights violations
- Women issues: honor killing
- Human trafficking
- Psychiatry and prison conditions
- Disadvantaged groups e.g. children, minorities, mentally ill, disabled, terminally ill
- Availability of medical services
- State structure, military and security services
- Drug dealing and trafficking
Ethnic and religious minorities, victims of domestic violence, political refugees, war refugees, mentaly sick persons, health systems, political and economic environment, stateless persons, other social groups, victims of human trafficking, illegal migrants, state and citizenship, Soviet Union , post-Soviet republics, religion and security, gender and violence, legal systems, document production, assessment of documents from country of origin.
2020-2021 Consultancy work for IDEA on "COVID and human rights in Eastern Europe and Baltic countries".
2018-2019 Consultancy country report on Tajikistan, German International Organisation of Country Analysis.
2018-2020 Research Project Coordination at Leibniz Institute on Central Asia and Caucasus-Extractive Resources.
2016-2017 Field Research in Russian cities with George Washington University and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.
2015, Turkmenistan, country report, Freedom House.
2015, Washington University, Central Asia and IS recruitment, media analysis.
2015, country information Armenia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Ukraine, various organizations.
2014, UNHCR, Country of Origin Information, Contribution on Turkmenistan.
2012-present, University of Cologne, research and analysis on the topic of human trafficking, illegal labour migration, women’s networks.
2011-present,Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,research on migration, informal economy, ethnicity, minorities
2010, Country of Origin Expert (COI) for the Fahamu Refugee Programme (FRP).
2005-present UK Home Office, US courts, International NGOs, local NGOs, Expert reports on the cases of ethnic minorities, health system, honor killings, religious minorities, political refugees, victims of war crimes, human trafficking and other victims, Number of reports produced on Asylum Cases: 100+
2010-2011, Center for Development Research, Germany. Policy research, Institutional and political environment.
04/2012,University of Cologne, Expert/researcher, Research on the topic of migration and illegal labour migration, human trafficking, women’s networks, conducting interviews, developing research proposal, seminar and workshops.
2003-2004, US government Consulting firm, Feasibility study on economic and political environment, Junior analyst.
Book 2016, ‘Migration and Identity: Uzbek Experience’, London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138913493/
Editorial work
2021 Edited Book wtih Urinboyev R. (Eds) Labour, Mobilities and Informal Practices: Power, institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space”, London: Routledge.
2020 Special Issue in a journal with Brose M. Halal Economies in non-Muslim countries. Special issue in Sociology of Islam (3-4)2020, Brill.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2021, with Muyassar Turaeva. Uchyot and Foucault: Drug users and migration in postSoviet Central Asia and Russia. Central Asian Affairs(8):83-98.
2020 Muslim ordersin Russia: trade networks and Hijama healing, Nationalities Papers, (2020):1-14.
2019 Imagined mosque communities in Russia: Central Asian migrants in Moscow, Asian Ethnicity, 20:2, 131-147, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2018.1525529
2018. Informal economies in post-Soviet space: Post-Soviet Islam and its role in ordering entrepreneurship in Central Asia, Central Asian Affairs,5(2018):55-75.
2014, Linguistic ambiguities of Uzbek and classification of Uzbek dialects, Anthropos, 110/2.
2014, ‘Mobile entrepreneurs in post-Soviet Central Asia: micro-orders of tirikchilik’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 47 (1): 105-114.
2013, Post-Soviet Uncertainties: Micro-orders of Central Asian migrants in Russia, Inner Asia, 15 (2013): 273–92.
2013, ‘From Rhetoric to Identification: Miscommunication in Inter-ethnic Contact’, Anthropology of Middle East, 8(2)21:45.
2013 (with Anna K. Hornidge), From Knowledge ecology to innovation systems: innovations in the sphere of agriculture in Uzbekistan, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 15(2):184-195.
2008, The cultural baggage of Khorezmian identity: traditional forms of singing and dancing in Khorezm and in Tashkent. Central Asian Survey 27(2): 143 – 153
2008, Citizenship and Ethnicity: Old Propiska and New Citizenship in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Inner Asia, 10(2):305-322, published under my penname Guliatir Hojaqizi.
Book Chapters (peer-reviewed) and articles in non-peer reviewed journals
2021 (forth), Dilemmas of identification: Trader`s dilemma of Uzbeks in Hoehne, Eidson and Gabbert ed. Dynamics of Integration and Conflict, New York and Oxford: Berghahn
2018, Informal economies in the post-Soviet space: post-Soviet Islam and its role in ordering entrepreneurship in Central Asia. In Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics and Identities. M.Laurelle edited. Brill Academic Publishers. pp.208-233
2018, Gender and change in post-Soviet Central Asia: women as change agents in Muslim societies, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity. Edited by Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and Linda L. Lindsey. New York: Routledge. Chapter 32.
2018, Border and road regimes in Central Asia: Uzbek-Kazakh border crossing experiences, In Elders and Saxer eds. Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands.pp.434-445
2017. Gender and changing women’s roles in Uzbekistan: women entrepreneurs, in Laurelle M. ed. Constructing the Uzbek State. Narratives of Post-Soviet Years. Lanham: Lexington, 2018.
2017. Kelin in Central Asia: social status of young brides as liminal phase, in Roche S. ed. Family in the history of Central Asia.
2017. The Role of Food in Identification Process: Examplesfrom Central Asia, in Alymbaeva A. ed. Food and Identity in Central Asia, CASCA – Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia II, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Saale, Germany.
2017. Private Initiative, Religious Education, and Family Values: A Case Study of a Brides’ School in Tashkent in Laurelle M. ed Uzbekistan: Political Order, Societal Changes, and Cultural Transformations, Washington DC: Central Asia Program, 2017.
2017. (with Tucker N.) Public and State Responses to ISIS Messaging: Turkmenistan, in Laurelle M. ed. Turkmenistan: Changes and Stability under Berdimuhamedow, Washington DC: Central Asia Program, 2017.
2014, Linguistic and Social Contradictions within Uzbek National Identity in Schlyter, Birgit (ed.), Historiography and National-Building among Turkic Populations, Papers, Vol. 5, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
2007. Sprache und soziale Identität: khorezmische Identität in einer multiethnischen Gesellschaft. Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung I: Integration und Konflikt, 2007, pp.151-152.
Encyclopedia Entries
2017, Tanish-bilish, in Ledeneva A. (ed.) Global Encyclopedia of Informality, London: Cambridge University Press.
Policy Briefs
2011, November. “Impact of post-Soviet governance on implementing innovations in agriculture”, Science Brief ZUR no. 22, ZEF, Bonn.
Working Papers and online articles
2014. Private Initiative, Religious Education, and Family Values: A Case Study of a Brides’ School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan Initiative Papers N7, February 2014, Central Asia program at Elliot School of International Affairs and CIDOB Barcelona Center for International Affairs. Available at http://uzbekistan-initiative.org/private-initiativereligious-education-and-family-values/
2012, ‘Kelins and Bride Schools in Uzbekistan’ Published online by BBC Central Asian Service and the Central Eurasian Media and Scholars Initiative (CESMI) in “My Take On”, on Wednesday October 17th, 2012, available online under: http://cesmi.info/wp/?p=337
2012, Obruli oilaga kelin bolib tushish Uzbekistondagi koplab qizlarning orzusi, Published online by BBC Uzbek-Forum, October 6, available online under: http://www.bbc.co.uk/uzbek/interactivity/2012/09/120928_bbc_blog_uzbek_kelins.shtml
2012, ‘Propiska regime in post-Soviet space; regulating mobility and residence’, by Central Asian Studies Institute at American University of Central Asia, available online under: http://www.auca.kg/en/casiwp/
2012, “Innovation policies in Uzbekistan: Path taken by ZEFa project on innovations in the sphere of agriculture.” in Center for Development Research working paper 90.
Book reviews
2016. in American Anthropologist, 118(3): Peter Finke. Variations on Uzbek Identity, Berghan Books.2014.
2012. in Slavonic & East European Review, 90, 4, Uyama, Tomohiko (ed.). Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts. New Horizons in Islamic Studies. Routledge, London and New York, 2012. xv + 296 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. £80.00.
2016. in Central Asian Survey, 35(1):140-142. Zulfia Tursunova, 2014. Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Ceremonies of Empowerment and Peacebuilding. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books