Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas

Milana V. Nikolko is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada. She has published extensively on social capital formation and conflict in Crimea, and the role of diaspora and horizontal legitimacy in the post-Soviet space. David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada. He is a NATO Fellow and Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

• Introduction. Post-Soviet Migration and Diaspora: From Global Perspectives to Everyday Perspectives; David Carment and Milana Nikolko.- Chapter 1. Diasporas, Development, and Homelands in Eurasia After 1991; Timothy Heleniak.- Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Russian-speaking migration to the UK: the discourses of visibility and accountability; Anna Pechurina.- Chapter 3. Migrant Self-Reflectivity and New Ukrainian Diaspora in Southern Europe: the Case of Portugal; Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.- Chapter 4. Social Consequences of Seasonal Labour Migration: A Case Study from Rural Azerbaijan; Jennifer S. Wistrand.- Chapter 5. Return For Development and Europeanization Among Moldovan Immigrants; Silvia Marcu.- Chapter 6. Transcending Return: The Experience of Making Home in the Republic of Georgia; Ryan Buchanan.- Chapter 7. Jewish Russians, Russian Israelis and “Jewski” Canadians: Youth and the Negotiation of Identity and Belonging; Anna Slavina.- Chapter 8. Russian Speaking Diaspora in Turkey: The Geopolitics of Migration in the Black Sea Region; Tunc Aybak.- Chapter 9. Russian policy Towards Compatriots: Global, Regional and Local Approaches; Irina Molodikova.- Conclusion. Post-Soviet Diasporas: Looking Forward –looking back; Milana Nikolko and David Carment.