Chapter from the book: Heusala, A et al. 2024. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.
Like liberal democracies, Russia, as one of the world’s largest immigration destinations, must manage numerous political conflicts related to immigration to ensure political stability. The majority of migration scholarship characterizes Russia’s political response to immigration as contradictory and interprets this as an expression of the authoritarian, patrimonial, and populist Russian state. To complement this literature, the chapter shows how Russian migration policy is linked to broader problems and conflicts of post-socialist change. Based on an analysis of the Russian expert discourse on labour migration, it argues that the competing political projects of labour migration are an expression of a society that is renegotiating its post-socialist coordinates in economic, cultural, and global terms.
Glathe, J. 2024. The Politicization of Labour Migration in Post-Soviet Russia: Competing Projects of Post-Socialist Development. In: Heusala, A et al (eds.), Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-26-4
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Published on Dec. 10, 2024