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Migrant communities in Moscow: Their origins, functionality, and maintenance mechanisms

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This text presents the results of a study in which we have sought answers to questions of: what kinds of migrant communities exist in Moscow, how they arise and function, what types of people they unite, and how they are structured. Due to the peculiar circumstances encountered by migrants in the process of integration into the cityscape and social spheres of Moscow, we chose as our setting-off point not ― ethnic neighborhoods,‖ which unlike in European and American cities do not exist in Moscow, but rather the ― ethnic cafés‖ that are scattered throughout the city. Our study draws upon interviews and observations done in eighty Moscow cafés — empirical data collected over the research project‘s six-month period. Having chosen as a conceptual centerpiece the appellation ― community,‖ we will delineate in the first portion of this paper a theoretical framework for our research, after which we will progress to the main portion, an ethnographic description of two different types of community, in order to depict here how such migrant communities are, in reality, structured in Moscow.

Language
Englisch

Classification
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Subject
migrant communities
integration of migrants
ethnic cafes
Moscow
Muslim communities
Homeland-rooted communities
Azerbaijani business
Communities within walking distance

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(who)
Varshaver, Evgeni
Rocheva, Anna
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Veröffentlichung
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Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
(where)
Moscow
(when)
2014-04-18

DOI
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2426477
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  • Rocheva, Anna
  • Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

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  • 2014-04-18

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