Russes et Caucasiens à la fin du XXe siècle. Identités et territoires

Merlin, Aude; Radvanyi, Jean

doi:10.3406/receo.2003.1630

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“…Hence the massive use of such explicitly racist and offensive words as "blacks", "blackheads", "khachiks", "jiggaboos", etc. in everyday speech (Merlin, Radvani, 2003). However, this was officially condemned by the authorities.…”

Section: "A Person Of Geographical Nationality": the Soviet Era Vocabmentioning

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From the “Influx of the Yellow Race” to “Migrant Workers”: Dynamics of the Languages for Describing Cross-Border Migrations in Russia

Dyatlov

Dyatlova

2020

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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The phenomenon of mass cross-border labour migrations to Russia of the late imperial and post-Soviet periods was in an urgent need of comprehension in order to build relationships (for the population) and to “manage the process” (for the authorities). The novelty of the phenomenon required the formation of a corpus of migration terminology, both ordinary and official, public one. The importance of studying the issue lies in the fact that both the understanding of the phenomenon and the relation to it are implied in the terms, and a discourse is formed with their help. In the late imperial era, the familiar terminology of citizenship and social class was used, and ethnic categories started being applied. However, the key metaphor was the term “the influx of the yellow race”. It implied the idea of migration as a natural spontaneous process and of migrants as a part of racially alien persons. The Soviet era preserved the dominance of primordialist ethnic discourse, which prevailed at the first stage of the post-Soviet era migration process. However, it was soon supplemented and then replaced by social and, particularly, migration terminology. A “Chinese” becomes a “Chinese migrant”, and then simply a “migrant”, followed by a “migrant worker”. These dynamics did not mean a complete replacement of one system of representations and the description language with another; the hierarchy of discourses changed. However, it clearly demonstrates a change in the attitude of the host Russian society towards migrants and the migration situation in general

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Section: "A Person Of Geographical Nationality": the Soviet Era Vocabmentioning

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From the “Influx of the Yellow Race” to “Migrant Workers”: Dynamics of the Languages for Describing Cross-Border Migrations in Russia

Dyatlov

Dyatlova

2020

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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“…Отсюда массовое использование в обыденной речи откровенно расистски-оскорбительных «черные», «чернозадые», «хачики», «баклажаны» и т.д. (Merlin, Radvani 2003) Однако это официально осуждалось властями. Институт предварительной цензуры позволял им удерживать этот дискурс за пределами публичного пространства.…”

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Cross-border migrants in Russia: language of the description dynamics

Dyatlov¹

2018

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At the turns of 19-20th and 20-21st centuries Russia faced extremely complex problem of mass cross-border labor migrations that demanded development of adequate language of the description of the happening processes. It is important not only because there is a communication of language of the description and heuristic potential of the researches which are conducted in it: language of the description influences the nature of relationship in society, is their powerful regulator, in many respects form them. Therefore it is so important to look what and from the words are undertaken what reasons are behind their choice. It is important to understand how language of the description reflected public moods, to reveal possible dynamics of process, to raise a question of its continuity or discretization. Today the Russian society changes. Also its relation to a problem of presence of migrants changes. Process of judgment and verbalization of a migration phenomenon in Russia is not complete.

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Russes et Caucasiens à la fin du XXe siècle. Identités et territoires

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From the “Influx of the Yellow Race” to “Migrant Workers”: Dynamics of the Languages for Describing Cross-Border Migrations in Russia

From the “Influx of the Yellow Race” to “Migrant Workers”: Dynamics of the Languages for Describing Cross-Border Migrations in Russia

Cross-border migrants in Russia: language of the description dynamics

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