Whither Studies of ‘Post-Soviet’ Migrants in the UK? Key Themes in Current Academic Research

Malyutina, Darya

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“…Post-Soviet women who follow this strategy have common features that unite them into a certain distinguished profile. These women usually originate from well-educated families, known as intelligentsia (Bassin and Kelly, 2012;Perotto, 2014;Savikovskaia, 2017;Malyutina, 2020), where one or both parents have an academic background. They often self-initiate migration and largely rely on themselves in pursuing administrative procedures, communicating with potential employers and seeking useful information that might help them swiftly adapt to new life conditions.…”

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Understanding Patterns of Economic Insecurity for Post-Soviet Migrant Women in Europe

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Salvino

2021

Front. Sociol.

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This study deals with meanings of economic insecurity for post-Soviet migrant women in Germany, Italy, and Spain, elaborating on its cultural underpinnings. Drawing upon several data sources, including interviews, observation, and online data, as well as judicial material, this study addresses the ways women from the former Soviet Union experience economic insecurity and which strategies they develop to cope. We consider women's age, social background, and level of education, analyzing their embeddedness into different life domains. We identify four patterns of coping with economic insecurity, linked to individual characteristics, cultural values and legal frame conditions in the countries under investigation, and provide implications for social mobility and conservative backlash in Europe.

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Section: Labor Market-oriented Strategymentioning

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Understanding Patterns of Economic Insecurity for Post-Soviet Migrant Women in Europe

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Salvino

2021

Front. Sociol.

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“…Importantly, not all post-Soviet immigrants are Russophones. Malyutina (2020) stresses the importance of discerning among those post-Soviet immigrants who use Russian and those who want nothing to do with it, in order to avoid any superficial or oversimplified approach to diaspora. This seems to be a very relevant observation, considering that historically there has been a general tendency to label as 'Russian' any immigrant from the former Soviet Union (see, for example, Andrews 1998 on such a historical perspective).…”

Section: The Russian Language In Post-soviet Immigrant Communitiesmentioning

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“…Важно отметить, что не все постсоветские иммигранты -русскоязычные. Для того, чтобы избежать любого поверхностного или упрощенного подхода к диаспоре, Д. Малютина (Malyutina 2020) подчеркивает важность различия между теми постсоветскими иммигрантами, которые используют русский язык, и теми, кто не хочет иметь с ним ничего общего. Это наблюдение кажется очень уместным, учитывая, что исторически сложилась общая тенденция называть «русским» любого иммигранта из бывшего Советского Союза (см., например, Andrews 1998 о такой исторической перспективе).…”

Section: русский язык в постсоветских иммигрантских сообществахunclassified

The Russian language maintenance and language contacts

Zabrodskaja

Ivanova

2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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In our introductory article, we outline the main sociolinguistic features of Russian as a heritage language of post-Soviet immigrants in European settings and beyond. We offer a general overview of the evolution of Russian as a global language, with a particular focus on its geodemographics and economic and social value as a lingua franca . Based on this, we analyse the main principles defining the maintenance of Russian as a language of migration and as a heritage language in different countries, and emphasise the most important questions that still need to be addressed in this field of research. The main objective of this special issue is to combine the most recent research on the vitality of different languages of post-Soviet republics in new political milieu, with a particular focus on European and Asian countries, but there are other objectives as well. We propose to explore the factors that have either favoured or hindered the maintenance and transmission of languages of post-Soviet immigrants and repatriates, and how these sociolinguistic processes become evident in language vitality on both private and public levels. Our special issue primarily addresses the questions of family language policy, new language contacts and their management, and linguistic landscape in heritage speakers, diasporas and their new settings in Europe, Asia and the US.

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Whither Studies of ‘Post-Soviet’ Migrants in the UK? Key Themes in Current Academic Research

Cited by 2 publications

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Understanding Patterns of Economic Insecurity for Post-Soviet Migrant Women in Europe

Understanding Patterns of Economic Insecurity for Post-Soviet Migrant Women in Europe

The Russian language maintenance and language contacts

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