The Camp Fix: Infrastructural Power and the "Re-education Labour Regime" in Turkic Muslim Industrial Parks in North-west China.

Industrial parks in north-west China occupy a liminal space between labour camps and private industry. Drawing on worker interviews, government documents, industry materials and images this article shows that for-profit public-private industrial parks have been built as part of a "camp fix" mechanism centred on detaining and "re-educating" Uyghurs and Kazakhs at the periphery of the nation. It argues that these industrial parks concentrate forms of repressive assistance and "dormitory labour regimes" that operate at other frontiers of Chinese state power and point these strategies of disempowerment towards a seemingly permanent, ethno-racialized underclass, producing a "re-education labour regime." It further argues that the material infrastructures of these surveiled and policed spaces themselves are productive in enforcing the goals of the "camp fix": the creation of high-quality, underpaid, docile and non-religious Muslim workers who are controlled through the built environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

新疆工业园区占据了劳改营与私营工业之间的一个界限空间。本文利用工人访谈、政府文件、行业材料和图像。文章显示营利性公私工业园区的建设是作为"营地解决方案"机制的一部分，该机制以拘留和"再教育"国家边缘的维吾尔人和哈萨克人为中心。它演示，这些工业园区集中了在中国国家权力的其他前沿运作的压制性援助和宿舍劳动制度的形式，并将这些剥夺权力的策略指向一个看似永久的、种族化的下层阶级，从而产生了"再教育劳动制度"。它进一步演示，这些受监视和监管的空间本身的物质基础设施在执行"营地解决方案"的目标方面是富有成效的：通过建筑环境强制执行高质量、低薪、温顺的非宗教穆斯林工人。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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