The Traveling Minzu: Uyghur Muslim Migration and the Negotiation of Identities

* Contains international and geopolitical contexts as it covers several geographic regions that Uyghur migrants travelled, including China, former Soviet Union, Russia, and Australia

* Uyghur immigrants, as one of China’s largest Muslim communities is now at the centre of drastic social transformation but remain understudied

* Demonstrates the significant role of Islam in assisting and integrating Muslim minorities in both China and Australia

* Challenges the ethnocentric concept of Chinese and Chinese overseas