’...provides a unique, sensitive and original insight into Russian communities in the west in the post-Soviet period. Kopnina's anthropological and highly personal approach provides an in-depth, subtle and focused view of the lives and experiences of the individuals who provide the basis for the book that is too rarely found in the literature. It is also a significant contribution to understandings of and approaches to migration and migrant communities in the contemporary period, from a theoretical/conceptual and also a methodological perspective.’ Dr Moya Flynn, University of Glasgow, UK ’...this well-edited, handsome volume...ought to be on the shelves of all university libraries, in centres of Russian and east European studies, and in institutes of migration and immigration.’ Slavic Review