Migration, displacement, and identity in post-Soviet Russia / / Hilary Pilkington

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974381603321
• Autore: Pilkington Hilary <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-72656-2; 1-134-72657-0; 1-280-31847-3; 0-585-45303-9; 0-203-44443-4
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 252 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 304.8/347
• Soggetti: Russians - Former Soviet republics - Migrations; Russia (Federation) Emigration and immigration; Russia (Federation) Emigration and immigration Government policy; Former Soviet republics Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part Part I Policy and practice: The formation of the Russian migration regime -- chapter 1 Did they jump or were they pushed? -- Empirical and conceptual issues in post-Soviet migration -- chapter 2 Redrawing a nation's borders / The politics of the migration debate in Russia -- chapter 3 The legislative framework -- When is a refugee not a refugee? -- chapter 4 The institutional framework -- Securitizing migration -- chapter 5 Putting policy into practice -- A regional comparison -- part Part II Going home? Social and cultural adaptation of refugees and forced migrants -- chapter Introduction -- Into the field -- chapter 6 More push than pull? -- Motivations for migration -- chapter 7 Surviving the drop -- Social and economic adaptation -- chapter 8 Us and them: Crossing the cultural border to post-Soviet -- Crossing the cultural border to post-Soviet Russia / Russia -- chapter 9 The other Russians -- Displacement and national-identity formation among forced migrants -- chapter 10 Conclusion -- Migration without boundaries?.
• Sommario/riassunto: The displacement of 25 million ethnic Russians from the newly independent states is a major social and political consequence of the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Pilkington engages with the perspectives of officialdom, of those returning to their ethnic homeland, and of the receiving populations. She examines the policy and the practice of the Russian migration regime before looking at the social and cultural adaptation for refugees and forced migrants. Her work illuminates wider contemporary debates about identity and migration.