Migration

Political Reforms for Postwar Russia: What Russian Wartime Migrants Say

Image credit/license Should it not change the structure of its political institutions, Russia is unlikely to recover from its authoritarian legacy and will remain a persistent threat to the international…

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Far from Home: Russians Relocating to Latin America

Image credit/license The detention of several pregnant Russian women at the Buenos Aires airport in March 2023 highlighted the new wave of Russian migration to Argentina. Argentine migration authorities accused…

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Local Responses to Russian Migration in Georgia and Kazakhstan

Image credit/license Since both countries border Russia and have visa-free entry for Russian citizens, Georgia and Kazakhstan have received many of the Russians fleeing the impact of the full-scale invasion…

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Racializing Central Asia during the Russian-Ukrainian War: Migration Flows and Ethnic Hierarchies

This memo looks at three patterns of mobility into and out of Central Asia in the current period affected both by the war in Ukraine and historical structures of colonialism…

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Labor Migration in Russia | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy

Thirty years after the USSR’s collapse, Russia remains a magnet for migrants from the former Soviet Union. Russia’s population totals about 145 million, and the number of migrants reaches into…

Russian Immigration Control: Symbol Over Substance

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia’s immigration system is consistently presented as draconian and inhumane. Human rights organizations, mass media, and scholars alike use labor slavery, violations of rights, and vulnerable migrants excluded…

Labor Migration in the Eurasian Union: Will Freedom of Movement Trump Domestic Controls?

(Guest contribution) In preparation for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens’ full access to the EU labor market in January 2014, UK Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a new policy agenda that would…

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