Civil Servant-Family Pair Up
Civil Servant-Family Pair Up () is a governmental policy that forces designated families to be matched with civil servants to form a nominal kinship, with the families forced to host the civil servants in their home. Since the late 2010s, China has vigorously promoted the pair up policy in Xinjiang. Hosting requirements have increased over time across counties and prefectures, ranging from 5 days per month to 14 days per month. Despite this, overseas Uyghurs have stated that 'visitation' times often exceeded the time requirement, with one stating that visits regularly occurred up to four  times per week and eventually became full-time. Refusal to host leads to imprisonment in an internment camp. Beginning in 2018, over one million Chinese government workers began forcibly living in the homes of Uyghur families to monitor and assess resistance to assimilation, as well as to watch for frowned-upon religious and cultural practices. The "Pair Up and Become Family" program is a program during which Han Chinese men assigned to monitor the homes of Uyghurs slept in the same beds as Uyghur women. According to Radio Free Asia, these Han Chinese government workers have been trained to call  themselves "relatives" and have been engaging in the forcible co-habitation of Uyghur homes for the purpose of promoting "ethnic unity". Radio Free Asia reports that these men "regularly sleep in the same beds as the wives of men detained in the region’s internment camps." Chinese officials maintain that co-sleeping is acceptable, provided that a distance of one meter is maintained between the women and the "relative" assigned to the Uyghur home. Uyghur activists state that no such restraint takes place, citing pregnancy and forced marriage numbers, and name the program a campaign of "mass rape disguised as  'marriage'." Human Rights Watch has condemned the Pair Up and Become Family Program as a "deeply invasive forced assimilation practice", while the World Uyghur Congress states that it represents the "total annihilation of the safety, security and well-being of family members."