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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pilkington, Hilary

Titel

Migration, displacement and identity in post-soviet Russia

Ort / Verlag

London u.a: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, around 25 million ethnic Russians found themselves politically and culturally displaced, forming a new 'Russian minority' in each of the newly independent states. Since then, around 3 million Russians have either chosen or been forced to return to Russia... Using completely new empirical data drawn from in-depht interviews with almost 200 forced migrants and refugees, the author's extensively researched study explores the experience of reintegration from the perspective of those displaced. She asks how the experience of these self-confessed 'other' Russians informs an understanding of contemporary Russian society and, in particular, the problematic reconstruction of a post-Soviet Russian identity. The study also places the experience of Russian returnees in the context of the wider political significance of the Russian 'diaspora' question. In so doing it develops a critical appraisal of current Russian Federation and regional migration policy. (DIPF/orig.).