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Deep Dive: Uzbekistan and the Future of Eurasia

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Importance of Economic Migration in Central Asia

Uzbekistan's labor force is projected to increase by 3.9 million in the year 2030, which would make Uzbekistan the fifth largest labor force in Europe and Central Asia. Almost 30% of its people under the age of 14; migrant workers account for almost a third of Uzbeks' labor force. Economic migration is the single most important factor for Central Asian recruiting to jihadist and fundamentalist Islamist groups. The American War on Terror has been fought mainly in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria, but the risk of spillover from those countries into Uzbekistan has always been high.

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