East to West Migration: Russian Migrants in Western Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367604264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Helen Kopnina

Opis

The collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe brought widespread fear of a 'tidal wave' of immigrants from the East into Western Europe. This book focuses on Russian migration into Western Europe following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Based on extensive interviews, this fascinating and unique ethnographic account of the 'new migratio

Recenzje

’...provides a unique, sensitive and original insight into Russian communities in the west in the post-Soviet period. Kopnina's anthropological and highly personal approach provides an in-depth, subtle and focused view of the lives and experiences of the individuals who provide the basis for the book that is too rarely found in the literature. It is also a significant contribution to understandings of and approaches to migration and migrant communities in the contemporary period, from a theoretical/conceptual and also a methodological perspective.’ Dr Moya Flynn, University of Glasgow, UK ’...this well-edited, handsome volume...ought to be on the shelves of all university libraries, in centres of Russian and east European studies, and in institutes of migration and immigration.’ Slavic Review

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Migration; London and Amsterdam: The Tale of Two Cities; Community; Subcommunities and Subcultures; Social Networks and Informal Economic Activity; Cultural Discourses; Ethnicity and Identity; Conclusions; Index.

O autorze

Helen Kopnina is Lecturer of Tourism at The School of Economics, Haarlem College, and Lecturer of Intercultural Communication and member of the lectorate at Fashion Institute, Amsterdam, both in The Netherlands.