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Coercion Capital: Kyilah Terry’s Research into Belarus’s Migrant Recruitment Policies and Authoritarian Mobility Management (AMM)

This article comes out of a discussion between author Alena Shalaby and University of Pennsylvania Political Science PhD candidate Kyilah Terry about her work exploring Belarus’s migrant instrumentalization policies. The discussion with Kyilah Terry on Belarus catalyzed a deeper, comparative intellectual investigation regarding how authoritarian governments manipulate movement. To explore this, Kyilah Terry, Kai Thaler, and Alena developed an inductive conceptual typology called authoritarian mobility management (AMM).
 

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