Everyday nationalism in Russia in European context: Moscow residents’ perceptions of ethnic minority migrants and migration

Kosmarskaya, Natalya; Savin, Igor

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“…There have been numerous studies of everyday nationalism in the Russian context (Kosmarskaya and Savin 2016;Pilkington 2012;Ruget 2018); however, most of these works have focused on ethnic minorities or local identities rather than the Russian (russkii) ethnic majority or pan-Russian identity (rossiiskii). Paul Goode and David Stroup discuss how everyday nationalism's overemphasis on ethnic minorities (Goode and Stroup 2015) diverted attention from studying nationalism in the Gellnerian sense of "a doctrine of political legitimacy" (Gellner 2008), an issue I seek to address in this article by examining how the methods employed by the government and media could be interpreted as legitimacy-seeking activities.…”

Section: Banal and Everyday Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

United by History: Government Appropriation of Everyday Nationalism During Vladimir Putin’s Third Term

McGlynn

2020

Nationalities Papers

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During Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, the Russian government and media’s rhetorical embrace of illiberalism, patriotism, and chauvinism was accompanied and partly facilitated by the invocation of historical precedent and “correct” historical understanding. Politicians stressed the importance of a shared historical memory to Russian national identity, rendering the interpretation of history a question of patriotism. The government and state-supportive media then used “patriotic” historical memories to legitimize government policies. Through framing analysis of three significant episodes—namely, the Ukraine Crisis, imposition of sanctions, and Russian intervention in Syria—I outline how the government and state-supportive media conflated these events with supposed historical precedents. This conflation made “patriotic” (or government-approved) history an everyday topic of discussion, but it also confused supporting government policy with celebrating historical triumph (or condemning historical tragedy). In this way, the government co-opted the emotional power of the history they invoked for the purposes of legitimizing their policies. This was compounded by the government and state-supportive media using and citing images and descriptions of ordinary people performing their patriotism in a manner that simultaneously demonstrated awareness of Russian history and support for the government.

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Section: Banal and Everyday Nationalismmentioning

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United by History: Government Appropriation of Everyday Nationalism During Vladimir Putin’s Third Term

McGlynn

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…At the local level in Moscow, the locals considered the number of immigrants way higher than it actually was. For them, immigrants represented some concrete everyday troubles like overpopulation and traffic jams related to the 'crowded city' rather than anti-migrants sentiments in general (Kosmarskaya N., Savin I., 2016). However, there are wide regional differences in the attitude to the foreign labour, creating rather different contexts where the abovedescribed inequalities, racist discourses and attacks and religious-political assaults are being lived and interpreted.…”

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Economic Aspects of Migration From Central Asia in Russia

Virkkunen

2017

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Èkon.

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Abstract. The feeling of 'home' and 'ontological security' are central in social and psychological integration of both migrants and local residents. In Russia, for most Central Asian migrants the feeling of 'home' is often in clear contradiction with daily practices in Russia. The tightening economic situation, collapse of the rouble and the ambivalent migration legislation, of course, affect the integration of migrants and a feeling of security in the new countries of residence.

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“…Regardless of whether they have Russian citizenship, migrants from Central Asian countries often face discriminatory practices in the housing (Reeves, 2016) and labor markets (Florinskaya, Mkrtchyan, Maleva, and Kirillova 2015), as well as limited access to the health care programs (Kashnitsky and Demintseva 2018) and schools (Demintseva 2020a); further, they face discrimination and racism in general (Kosmarskaya and Savin 2016). There are also specific institutional barriers that impact migrants with children in Russia.…”

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Ethnicity in Schools: Perceptions of Migrant Children from Central Asia in the Multicultural Environment of Russian Cities

Demintseva

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article analyzes phenomenon of “migrant schools” and “migrant classes” in schools that began to emerge in the 2010s in Siberian cities of Tomsk and Irkutsk. The study is based on 120 interviews with migrants and 36 express-interviews with parents of children from both local families and those that have migrated from Central Asia, as well as case studies of four schools in these two cities identified as “migrant” by local residents. Despite the ethnic diversity of these Siberian cities where most families themselves descend from migrants from other regions, the local population singles out new migrants from the countries of Central Asia as “others” in the urban space. While school administrations, teachers, and parents reproduce the narratives of tolerance and ethnic diversity, school segregation persists in these cities, manifested, among other things, in the emergence of “migrant” schools and “migrant classes” in schools. This study presents this segregation as an outcome of strategies pursued by school administrators and parents of both local and migrant children. In particular, creation of “migrant” classes in some schools is the school administrators’ response to the lack of adaptation programs for migrant children. I conclude that rather than assisting the socialization of migrant children, such schools reproduce their isolation from other pupils, limiting their ability to succeed in the future.

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Everyday nationalism in Russia in European context: Moscow residents’ perceptions of ethnic minority migrants and migration

Cited by 14 publications

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United by History: Government Appropriation of Everyday Nationalism During Vladimir Putin’s Third Term

United by History: Government Appropriation of Everyday Nationalism During Vladimir Putin’s Third Term

Economic Aspects of Migration From Central Asia in Russia

Ethnicity in Schools: Perceptions of Migrant Children from Central Asia in the Multicultural Environment of Russian Cities

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