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This chapter introduces the reader to a research region which is considered as a migrant- sending or source region. The first part of this chapter deals with the socio-economic and migration situation in the Jalal-Abad oblast. Since this study is based on a case study method, and three rural municipalities of the Jalal-Abad oblast were chosen as case study areas, the second part of this chapter introduces the Arstanbap, Kyzyl-Unkur and Kara-Alma rural municipalities. The changing patterns of rural livelihoods and migration preconditions are considered through the example of these three rural case study areas.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26991-7_10

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  1. 1.

    Through the administrative-territorial division in Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven oblasts (provinces) and two cities at republican level (Bishkek city, which is the capital of the country, and Osh city, which is the second largest city in the country). Oblasts are divided into raions (region) and towns subject to the oblasts. In turn, a raion consists of towns subject to raions, settlements of urban type, settlements and aiyl okrugs (rural municipality). Aiyl okrug is the lowest ranking administrative-territorial division and consists of one or more villages (NSC KR 2010a: 11).

  2. 2.

    Jalal-Abad oblast consists of eight raions (regions): Aksy, Ala-Buka, Bazar-Korgon, Nooken, Suzak, Toguz-Toro, Toktogul and Chatkal. Oblast includes seven cities, seven settlements of urban type, three settlements, 66 aiyl okrugs (rural municipalities) and 420 rural settlements (villages). The city of Jalal-Abad is the administrative centre of the oblast (NSC KR 2010b: 12).

  3. 3.

    According to the definition given by NSC KR, “Resident population—related to persons who live permanently in the given territory, including temporarily absent persons, if their absence in the Kygyz Republic do not exceed one year, as well as persons who moved out of the Kyrgyz Republic with business trip, work, study or other purposes for one year and more, but planning to return afterwards” (NSC KR 2010a: 11).

  4. 4.

    NSC KR determines the present population as: “Present population—related to persons who live permanently and temporarily in the given territory at the moment of census” (NSC KR 2010a: 11).

  5. 5.

    The construction of the first railways was mainly associated with the mining industry and especially coal mining.

  6. 6.

    The Toktogul cascade of hydroelectric power stations (HESs) consists from three stations: Toktogul (1200 MW), Kurpsai (800 MW) and Uch-Kurgan (180 MW) (Aitkeev 2001: 232).

  7. 7.

    Kara-Kul, unlike other listed cities, is not a mining industrial city; it has an ‘energetic’ function because the population of the city mainly work at the hydroelectric plant. A significant number of Russian-speaking engineers and other skilled workers also left this city in the 1990s.

  8. 8.

    The code “HH-4” refers to a specific household (here: household-4) interviewed in this study.

  9. 9.

    On 1 August 2011, 1 US dollar was equal to 44.6 Kyrgyz soms (National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, data for 2011).

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