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Ионцев, В.А.; Ivakhnyuk, Irina; Соболева, С. В.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388138.003.0004

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“…Russia has also experienced recent immigration from neighboring, predominantly post-Soviet, states (Korobkov 2008). While in the early 1990s, immigration flows to Russia were dominated by ethnic Russians returning from the “near abroad” countries, most later immigration waves were economically driven and included members of titular nations of other post-Soviet states and South-east Asian countries, such as China, Turkey, Vietnam, and Korea (Iontsev, Ivakhnyuk and Soboleva 2010). Ukrainians, Armenians, and Azeris were the largest non-Russian ethnic groups in the net migration inflow to Russia until 2007 (the last year when information on migrants’ ethnicity was collected at registration) (Brunarska, Denisenko 2021).…”

Section: The Russian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia

Brunarska

Toruńczyk-Ruiz

2022

International Migration Review

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This article examines the relationship between ethnic diversity and out-group trust in contemporary Russia, while distinguishing between long-standing ethnic diversity and recent immigration. In contrast to previous research that tested whether past regional experience with diversity is related to people's attitudes toward out-group members, we focus on long-standing ethnic diversity, defined as diversity resulting from the long-term coexistence of ethnic groups in a region, not recent immigration. We hypothesize that while the presence of out-groups may initially be threatening to the members of an ethnic group, long-standing diversity has positive consequences for intergroup relations. Using 2015 survey data combined with census and official registration data from Russian regions, we found that inhabitants of regions with higher levels of long-standing ethnic diversity tended to show higher out-group trust, while accounting for socio-economic characteristics of the regions and of individuals. In contrast, inhabitants of regions with higher recent immigration tended to have lower out-group trust, all else held constant. While these associations were weak, they speak in favor of a dynamic model of intergroup trust, which involves learning about others through mutual coexistence. We also acknowledge that the autochthonous status of ethnic minorities and existing institutional arrangements regarding different ethnic groups in Russia may additionally contribute to the development of trust.

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Section: The Russian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%