Russian Borderlands in Change: North Caucasian Youth and the Politics of Bordering and Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781138547339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Tiina Sotkasiira

Opis

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 differences between the ways official discourses construct borders and the ways people who live there experience them, this book uses innovative theoretical approaches and empirical work with young North Caucasian migrants to explore issues of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging. It 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.

O autorze

Tiina Sotkasiira is a researcher at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland.