Migrant Resettlement in the Russian Federation: Reconstructing Homes and Homelands

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This timely book offers a unique insight into the individual and collective experiences of movement and resettlement among Russian migrants 'returning' to the Russian Federation over the period 1991-2002. Moya Flynn uses different levels of analysis (local, regional, national and global) to open up fresh perspectives on the nature of the Russian migration regime and government migration policy. The book offers the first in-depth examination of non-governmental development in the area of migration in post-Soviet Russia and provides new understandings of the experience of migration and resettlement at the individual level, specifically through an exploration of understandings of 'home' and 'homeland' and a focus on the role of migrant networks.

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'coherent, innovative... important new research [and] impressive quantity and quality of data... its conclusions challenge existing assumptions that can influence thinking about Russia' Dr Wendy Slater, Lecturer in Contemporary Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London

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Moya Flynn is a Lecturer in the Department of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her main research interest concerns the migration movements taking place in the Russian Federation and the wider post-Soviet space.