@inbook{2a0a85a69b864e4e87f69573cd9dff2e,
title = "Post-Soviet Russia: Anti-immigrant sentiment and discourses of national identity",
abstract = "In post-Soviet Russia, the levels of anti-immigrant attitudes and opposition to immigration have been rising over the first two decades of the 21st century. Yet, a long list of social attributes, used by social scientists to explain levels of anti-immigrant sentiment in other contexts, shed only scant light on the same phenomenon in post-Soviet Russia. In this chapter, we suggest that anti-immigrant sentiment in Russia should be examined against emerging contradictory discourses of national belonging, in which migration has played a special role, and which were mobilized by the regime for a variety of political purposes. We highlight the contradictory nature of Russia{\textquoteright}s ideas about nationalism, in which imperial sensitivities coexist with civic notions of nationalism and ethnonational definitions of the state. We show how social groups{\textquoteright} and individuals{\textquoteright} dispositions vis-{\`a}-vis these ideas and the processes of rebuilding national identity play a crucial role in shaping their attitudes toward immigrants and immigration.",
author = "Inna Leykin and Anastasia Gorodzeisky",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
day = "19",
language = "American English",
isbn = "9781839100758",
series = "Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.",
pages = "88--113",
editor = "Michael Samers and Jens Rydgren",
booktitle = "Migration and Nationalism",
address = "United Kingdom",
}