Policing Migration in Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow

Light, Matthew

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“…Soviet policing of residence entailed more profound surveillance of citizens than in comparable systems, such as the South African "pass laws" (Kessler, 2001;Light, 2010Light, , 2012. Police also suppressed unlawful economic activity, including illegal resale of consumer goods ("speculation") and holding a second, unofficial job.…”

Section: From Hegemony To Disarraymentioning

confidence: 98%

Policing following political and social transitions: Russia, Brazil, and China compared

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Prado

Wang

2015

Theoretical Criminology

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This is a comparative analysis of policing in three countries that have experienced a major political or social transition, Russia, Brazil, and China. We consider two related questions: (1) how has transition in each country affected the deployment of the police against regime opponents (which we term "repression")? And (2) how has the transition affected other police misconduct that also victimizes citizens but is not directly ordered by the regime ("abuse")? As expected, authoritarian regimes are more likely to perpetrate severe repression. However, the most repressive authoritarian regimes such as China may also contain oversight institutions that limit police abuse. We also assess the relative importance of both transitional outcomes and processes in posttransition policing evolution, arguing that the "abusiveness" of contemporary Brazilian police reflects the failure to create oversight mechanisms during the transition, and that the increasing "repressiveness" of Chinese police reflects a conscious effort by the Chinese Communist Party to reinforce the police in an era of economic liberalization. In contrast, Russian police are both significantly abusive and repressive, although less systematically "repressive" than Chinese police, and less "abusive" (or at least violent)

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Section: From Hegemony To Disarraymentioning

confidence: 98%

Policing following political and social transitions: Russia, Brazil, and China compared

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2015

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“…One reason for this was a complete lack of cooperation between city and oblast, which resulted, inter alia, in Moscow's modern radial highways turning into narrow country roads beyond MKAD. Finally, Moscow's population has grown from 8 to 11.5 million since 1991, not counting undocumented immigrants (e.g., see Light, 2010). Congestion and the failure to make Moscow a "comfortable 860 EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS city" contributed to Luzhkov's downfall and his replacement by Sergey Sobyanin (e.g., Levy, 2010aLevy, , 2010b.…”

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New Moscow: An Exploratory Assessment

Argenbright

2011

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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An American geographer specializing in Russia examines the unprecedented plan announced in mid-2011 by the country's President Dmitriy Medvedev to expand the territory of Moscow and move government offices to newly annexed areas. The plan aims to increase the land area of the capital by 155 percent, mainly by annexation of a vast tract southwest of the city. The author demonstrates that while "New Moscow" is envisioned as a multi-polar and low-density urban site, the historic core would likely focus on tourism. He discusses the official reasons given for the immense undertaking, the potential problems raised by urban specialists and local media, as well as the results of public opinion polls detailing the attitudes of Muscovites toward the city's proposed transformation. Journal of Economic Literature,

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“…52-59;Weiner, 1996, p. 442). International mobility became a matter of concern and an issue for political planning and strategic intervention, whereas internal movements within states tended to be much less problematized (with exceptions like the Soviet Union/Russian Federation: Matthews, 1993; see also Light, 2010). In a world governed as an assemblage of distinct nation-states, international migration came to be regarded as a "deviant" process, as a social or political "risk" and as a dangerous challenge to territorially, ethnically and culturally "homogeneous" nation-states (Agnew, 1994;Bigo, 2002, p. 67;Zolberg, 1991, p. 301).…”

Section: The National Order Of Things and The "Government" Of Human Mmentioning

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Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People

Geiger¹,

Pécoud²

2013

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The global political economy is in flux as a series of cumulative crises impacts its organization and governance. The IPE series has tracked its development in both analysis and structure over the last three decades. It has always had a concentration on the global South. Now the South increasingly challenges the North as the centre of development, also reflected in a growing number of submissions and publications on indebted Eurozone economies in Southern Europe.An indispensable resource for scholars and researchers, the series examines a variety of capitalisms and connections by focusing on emerging economies, companies and sectors, debates and policies. It informs diverse policy communities as the established trans-Atlantic North declines and 'the rest', especially the BRICS, rise.

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Policing Migration in Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow

Cited by 44 publications

References 16 publications

Policing following political and social transitions: Russia, Brazil, and China compared

Policing following political and social transitions: Russia, Brazil, and China compared

New Moscow: An Exploratory Assessment

Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People

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