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SUMMARY: Freedom and Family: Landscape and transformation of Uyghur Human R
 ights Activism
DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents Fr
 eedom and Family: Landscape and transformation of Uyghur Human Rights Activ
 ism by Kabir Qurban and UBC Researcher WHEN & WHERE October 26th\, 12-1pm B
 uchanan Tower 1099 Please RSVP below in advance Note: This is an in-person 
 event that will not be recorded or livestreamed. Family relations have […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;">The Social Ju
 stice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents</p><h1 style="text-align: ce
 nter\;"><span style="color: #993300\;">Freedom and Family: Landscape and tr
 ansformation of Uyghur Human Rights Activism</span></h1><p style="text-alig
 n: center\;"><strong>by Kabir Qurban and UBC Researcher</strong></p><p><img
  class="aligncenter wp-image-26928 size-large" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.u
 bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2022/10/Oct26_banner_event_KT-1024x576.jp
 g" alt="Decorative Event Banner with Artwork by Molly Crabapple showing Uyg
 hur family separation" width="620" height="349" /></p><hr /><p style="text-
 align: center\;"><strong>WHEN & WHERE<br /></strong>October 26th\, 12-1pm<s
 trong><br /></strong>Buchanan Tower 1099</p><p style="text-align: center\;"
 >Please RSVP below in advance</p><p style="text-align: center\;">Note: This
  is an in-person event that will not be recorded or livestreamed.</p><p sty
 le="text-align: center\;">[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accord
 ion title="RSVP"][gravityform id="23" title="true" description="true"][/acc
 ordion][/accordions]</p><hr /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Family re
 lations have proved a major source of both strength and vulnerability for U
 yghurs and their diaspora activism. For years\, this importance has been ex
 ploited by the Chinese government to control Uyghurs inside and outside of 
 China. From the government perspective\, Uyghur family relations are both a
  convenient tool and a liability in their attempt to silence the activism. 
 This presentation tells the story of a significant rise and development in 
 Uyghur diaspora grassroot activism during the peak years of large scale mas
 s incarceration of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (2017–2020). It relates ho
 w family relations and kinship became both a main motivating and inhibiting
  factor for this activism. It follows several young Uyghurs who turned into
  activists when they lost contact with their parents\, siblings\, spouses o
 r children in Xinjiang to examine their motivation and trajectories of acti
 vism. Based on fieldwork among diaspora activists and discourse analysis of
  social media activism\, the presentation explores how a new demography of 
 young\, well educated and well integrated Uyghurs in the diaspora who had k
 ept silent to protect their families back home (an</span><span style="font-
 weight: 400\;">d to a degree their own privileges) after 2017 took up activ
 ism as a response to losing their loved ones. For some of them\, re-connect
 ion with their families has led to renewed silence after 2020\, as the Chin
 ese government has been seeking to reinstate these control mechanisms by mo
 unting pressure on the relatives of activists. </span><span style="font-wei
 ght: 400\;">Our talk is the story of this intense and ever-transforming rel
 ationship between Uyghur kinship and Uyghur activism\; kinship can motivate
  activism and summon international solidarity around it\, but it has also b
 een used to control and split it and may now be partially-responsible for i
 ts decline.</span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong><im
 g class="alignleft wp-image-26930" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-con
 tent/uploads/sites/40/2022/10/LM_06142-1-683x1024.jpg" alt="Headshot of Kab
 ir Qurban" width="147" height="221" />Kabir Qurban</strong> is a Secondary 
 school teacher and a program coordinator at Muslim Foodbank and Community s
 ervices who works heavily in support of the Uyghur people and advocating th
 eir human rights. Kabir’s passions include advocacy for all human rights an
 d youth education. Kabir also is a blog writer and an award winning film pr
 oducer. You may catch him at the local rivers trying to fish for salmon or 
 camping in the Pacific Northwest.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px
 \;">Accessibility: Buchanan Tower 1099 is accessible by elevator. There are
  gendered washrooms in the stairwell and a gender-neutral\, accessible wash
 room on the 1st floor. </span></p>
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