China treatment of the uighurs

I began my research strategy with a question to determine what I already know about my research topic and what I hope to learn. Most of my research materials are secondary sources because I am most familiar with this type of research. It entails reading other people’s published research and studies to learn more about my topic by determining what others have written and said about the topic. The major source types that I used for my research are trade and professional organization data, technical, scientific, and academic journal articles. To access these sources, I mostly turned to the internet and searched the information I needed. Furthermore, publishers for journals and books in the university library also feature editorial boards who establish the accuracy and usefulness of information.

Since these source have passed through rigorous revisions and processes before publication, I knew that the sources I found in the university library website are reliable. Some of the sources I found using these research strategies include: Heberer, T. China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation: Autonomy or Assimilation. Routledge. The purpose of this source is to investigate how ethnic minorities in the rural China are doing as compared to ethnic majority. This source found out that majority villages in most parts of northeast China have a better economic situation compared to the average majority villages, while the minority villages in the southwest are doing economically well. According to the source, the various factors that affect the economic situation of minority villages in China include the local labor market, the wage level, the stock of human capital of the labor force, agricultural production inputs, and industrialization.

As established by this source, location is among the major factors that work against a favorable economic situation for minority villages in various parts of china. Low income for minority villages influences many ethnic minorities to migrate, but ethnicity may also become a hindrance to migration. In the recent past, the country also accepted the universality of human rights. For China, the question of its engagement with the international human rights system is a secondary matter to other debates about its role in the world. Therefore, while western states highly prioritize issues of human rights standards, China considers such issues as mere subsidiary foreign policy concerns. With this information, this source provides useful information into understanding China’s commitment to protecting human rights.

From this point, it then becomes possible to relate the extent to which China’s treatment of the ethnic Muslim minority community is a breach of international human rights standards. Despite this positive economic improvement in the countries, the issue of social exclusion, marginalization, and income inequalities remain a serious issue in the countries. An understanding of the inequalities in China regarding ethnic minorities could provide important information on how China treats the ethnic Muslim minority community, and the extent to which it constitutes to the violation of the international human rights standards. This source is current and relevant because it critically evaluates new relevant studies on the issue and responds to the global perspective of minority issues. The source touches on events such as the emergence of the Islamic fundamentalism and the Islamic State (ISIS), the persisting conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, civil wars in Syria and Libya, and the continuation of global terrorism.

As my topic is mainly about the ethnic Muslim minorities, these events exhibit a global bearing about their treatment and perceptions about them that could be applied in the context of China. These significant changes, coupled with China’s foreign policies, have left conspicuous marks on various human rights issues. In this context, a major issue that has recently gained local and international attention is the country’s treatment of ethnic Muslim minority community. Western governments, including Canada, the United States, and Europe have harshly expressed disappoint in China’s treatment of minorities in the country, especially the ethnic Muslim minority community. As such, it is important to understand the extent to which China’s treatment of the ethnic Muslim minority community is a breach of international human rights standards.

To answer this research question, this paper first presents various contextual issues, including China’s involvement with the Universal Human Rights Declaration (UHRD) treaty and the ethnic Muslim minority community in China. However, China slowly loosened its convictions against the United Nations’ machinery on human rights. It started sending large delegations to New York and fielding many representatives to attend conventions and meetings of a range of United Nations organs and their subsidiary bodies (Sceats and Breslin, 2012, p. In the 1980s, the country signed and ratified various human rights treaties, including conventions on refugees and genocide, apartheid, discrimination against women, and race discrimination. Furthermore, China largely contributed to drafting of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and in 1988, became a party to the treaty.

For this, PRC has participated in the international human rights system for more than 30 years. The China’s Uighur minority in Xinjiang have long had grievances concerning their status and treatment in China. Despite being officially recognized as being equal citizens of China, the ethnic Muslim minority community has always had a dissatisfied relationship with authorities in Beijing. For instance, during the violent civil wars in China in 1933, Uighur leaders in Xinjiang declared the region to be independent Republic of East Turkestan (Kaltman, 2014, p. However, the state was short-lived. Following street protects in Xinjiang in the 1990s and confrontations prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government has substantially intensified its crackdown on the Uighurs. The region is considered as one of the wealthiest parts of China.

The flourishing economic situation and increasing employment opportunities in Xinjiang have attracted migrant workers to the area, many of whom are ethnically Han. For this reason, although Xinjiang is experiencing transformational economic developments, the Uighurs are discontent with the increasing stream of the Han community coming to Xinjiang (Xiaolua, Ganga, and Pengb, 2009, p. The Uighurs accuse the Han of taking away their jobs. Many of the Uighurs are also displeased with the government’s move to confiscate part of their farmland for development purposes. While the Chinese government claims to be conducting counterterrorism in Xinjiang, there are several ways in which the country’s treatment of the ethnic Muslim minority in the region indicate high levels of violations of international human rights standards.

Some instances of violation of international human rights standards include: Incarceration The massive incarceration of Uighurs in detention camps in Xinjiang without due process is one of the major ways in which China perpetrates the violation of human rights against the ethnic Muslim minority in Xinjiang. In 2014, the Chinese government launched its campaign referred to as “Strike Hard against Violent Terrorism” in Xinjiang. Since the implementation of this program, the number of Uighurs formally arrested by the government has multiplied. According to the Chinese Human Rights Defenders, the government detains people in political education camps, prisons, and pretrial detention camps. Furthermore, a recent report by the Human Rights Watch revealed pervasive abuse of people in these detention camps, including beatings, deprivation of sleep, and hanging of people from walls and ceilings.

As such, from the incarcerations at the detention camps in Xinjiang, it is evident that China’s treatment of the ethnic Muslim minority community exhibits gross violation of international human rights standards. Mass surveillance In the strike hard program against violent terrorism in Xinjiang, the government has created a large-scale program for mass surveillance targeted at the Uighurs. Although China claims that these initiatives are meant to neutralize threats from Islamist militants and separatists in Xinjiang, some leads reveal that the mass surveillance in Xinjiang grossly violates international human rights standards. The Chinese government has installed a widespread network of checkpoints, police stations, and security cameras in Xinjiang that infringe into the rights of man residents. Re-education of the Uighurs For decades, the Chinese government has relentlessly sought to restrict the practice of Islam in Xinjiang and maintain a grip on region’s socio-political environment.

In these efforts, the country recently established re-education camps in Xinjiang that aim at eradicating extremism and separatist groups. However, in these re-education camps, the government has imposed repressive policies that grossly violate the human rights of those detained in the camps (Smith, 2018, p. The Uighurs have ethnic, cultural, and religious beliefs that are different from China’s Han majority. The government considers the Uighurs’ cultural, ethnic, and religious convictions to pose threats to the peace and tranquility of the larger Chinese population. In some cases, Uighurs children are trapped in other countries without their parents. For those that remain in Xinjiang, contacting family members abroad is punishable by the authorities. Therefore, many people lose contact of their family members abroad for months or even more.

This is an inhumane treatment of the Uighurs people that could not be sanctioned by the international human rights system. Therefore, the separation of families is a clear way in which China violates the human rights of the Uighurs in Xinjiang. In this context, some of the key skills that were useful in the assignment are: Managing my Learning Managing one’s learning is an important skill in guiding an individual towards academic and professional success. In the assignment, some skills that I developed on managing my own learning include time management, setting priorities, setting deadlines, and reflecting on my strengths and weaknesses. The assignment helped me in developing time management skills because I often found myself juggling research, deadlines, family, and work.

Having to complete and attend to all these things, I had to learn on how to manage my time, set priorities, and set deadlines. With the pressure of handling several tasks at the same time, I had to reflect on my strengths and weaknesses so as to focus on things that I would do best. Furthermore, I also learned how focus on my topic, what to make the central argument, what to read, the style and tone to adopt, what to include and what not to include in the assignment, how to introduce the topic, how to collect evidence, how to organize my ideas, and how to develop and support my general ideas on the topic. I the module, I also learned how to use various research strategies in finding my sources.

In this process, I was able to identify some research strategies that are every efficient in helping to find the best quality academic content in less time. To better my skills in using these research strategies, I sought to obtain expert advice on the strategies so as to determine the pros and cons of each research strategy. After deciding the research strategies that suit me the best, I kept practicing, and I eventually developed helpful skills in research. For instance, I made efforts to proofread all my work as I was writing. When I finished a sentence in my writing, I would stop and reread it. If the sentence sounded correct, I would proceed to the next sentence. Whenever the sentence did not sound correct, I would work on it.