It's best described as compulsory (re)education for at-risk adults. And it's also successfully concluded; the schools have been closed for over four years.
Westerners have settler-colonialism in their cultural DNA. When they see boarding schools for ethnic minorities, they can't help but project their own genocidal history and intent. But it's not a fair comparison. Schools for First Nations people in North America would beat children for speaking their native tongue, whereas the ones in Xinjiang improved literacy in the indigenous languages.
It's best described as compulsory (re)education for at-risk adults. And it's also successfully concluded; the schools have been closed for over four years.
Westerners have settler-colonialism in their cultural DNA. When they see boarding schools for ethnic minorities, they can't help but project their own genocidal history and intent. But it's not a fair comparison. Schools for First Nations people in North America would beat children for speaking their native tongue, whereas the ones in Xinjiang improved literacy in the indigenous languages.