Russian borderlands in change : North Caucasian youth and the politics of bordering and citizenship / Tiina Sotkasiira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotkasiira, Tiina, author.

Series:

Border regions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Russia (Federation)--Ethnic relations.

Russia (Federation).

Ethnic relations.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia).

Russia (Federation)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Russia (Federation).

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Nationalism--Russia (Federation).

Nationalism.

Citizenship--Russia (Federation).

Citizenship.

Group identity--Russia (Federation).

Group identity.

Migration, Internal--Russia (Federation).

Migration, Internal.

Borderlands--Russia (Federation)--Caucasus, Northern.

Borderlands.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Russia (Federation)--Northern Caucasus.

Physical Description:

viii, 165 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

While moving across borders has been made easier for some in Russia in recent years, for others, physical as well as socio-cultural borders are proving to be more and more difficult to cross. Tackling the differences between the ways in which official discourses construct borders and the ways people who live there experience them in their everyday lives, this book uses innovative theoretical approaches and empirical work with young North Caucasian migrants to explore issues of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging. The Chechen war, terrorist attacks and confrontations between Caucasian migrants and local residents have served as touchstones for intense public debates about who belongs in Russian society and who does not. Young people of North Caucasian origin are experiencing the effects of such debates as they learn to negotiate and maintain their identities in an environment in which they are defined as a threat to national security whilst simultaneously being pressured to align with core civic values of the state. This book reflects on the notion that the cultural borders, which define civic liberties and people's right to belong, are increasingly being defined within society, and not by the external borders of states. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 North Caucasus: Russia's inner abroad 27

2 Bordering as political practice: the case of Kondopoga 54

3 Bordering as social practice: life at the border 81

4 Talking back the dangerous identities 101

5 Young people and the politics of bordering 126.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472450944

1472450949

OCLC:

931226855