Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Post-Soviet Migration: Regional Context and Modern Development

   • David Carment, Milana Nikolko

   Pages 1-10

3. Diasporas, Development, and Homelands in Eurasia After 1991

   • Timothy Heleniak

   Pages 11-27

4. Post-Soviet Russian-Speaking Migration to the UK: The Discourses of Visibility and Accountability

   • Anna Pechurina

   Pages 29-45

5. Migrant Self-Reflectivity and New Ukrainian Diaspora in Southern Europe: The Case of Portugal

   • Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

   Pages 47-63

6. Social Consequences of Seasonal Labour Migration: A Case Study from Rural Azerbaijan

   • Jennifer S. Wistrand

   Pages 65-80

7. Return for Development and Europeanization Among Moldovan Immigrants

   • Silvia Marcu

   Pages 81-95

8. Transcending Return: The Experience of Making Home in the Republic of Georgia

   • Ryan Buchanan

   Pages 97-110

9. Jewish Russians, Russian Israelis and “Jewski” Canadians: Youth and the Negotiation of Identity and Belonging

   • Anna Slavina

   Pages 111-125

10. Russian-Speaking Diaspora in Turkey: The Geopolitics of Migration in the Black Sea Region

    • Tunc Aybak

    Pages 127-142

11. Russian Policy Towards Compatriots: Global, Regional and Local Approaches

    • Irina Molodikova

    Pages 143-161

12. Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas: Looking Back – Looking Forward

    • David Carment, Milana Nikolko

    Pages 163-167

13. Back Matter

    Pages 169-179

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This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora. It analyses processes of identity transformation in post-Soviet space and beyond, using macro- and micro-level perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches combining field-based and ethnographic research. The authors demonstrate that post-Soviet diaspora are just at the beginning of the process of identity formation and formalization. They do this by examining the challenges, encounters and practices of Ukrainians and Russians living abroad in Western and Southern Europe, Canada and Turkey, as well as those of migrants, expellees and returnees living in the conflict zones of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova. Key questions on how diaspora can be better engaged to support development, foreign policy and economic policies in post-Soviet societies are both raised and answered. Russia’s transformative and important role in shaping post-Soviet diaspora interests and engagement is also considered. This edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of diaspora, post-Soviet politics and migration, and economic and political development.

• Domestic affairs
• Identity
• Home and host state
• Methodology
• Immigration
• Postcolonialism
• Economic mobility
• Cultural communication
• Post-Socialist
• russian and post-soviet politics

        

• Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  Milana V. Nikolko

• Norman Paterson School, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  David Carment

Milana V. Nikolko is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada. She has published extensively on social capital formation and conflict in Crimea, and the role of diaspora and horizontal legitimacy in the post-Soviet space. 


David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada. He is a NATO Fellow and Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

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