A Note on Transliteration
PART I
Chapter 1. "What the Hell Kind of 'Non-Native' Am I"?
Chapter 2. Informal Networks, Exit, and Voice
Chapter 3. Soviet Socialist Legacies and Post-Soviet
Nationalization
Chapter 4. Opportunity Structures and the Role of Informal Networks
in Their Reconfiguration
PART II
Chapter 5. Native Versus Non-Native: Russian Perceptions of
Post-Soviet Nationalization
Chapter 6. Russian Responses to Perceptions of Socioeconomic
Prospects
Chapter 7. Ethnic Systems in Transition
Appendix: Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Why do Russians choose to stay in Latvia, a state that adopts antagonistic policies that favor Latvians at the expense of Russians, yet migrate from Kyrgyzstan, a state that adopts accommodating policies to placate Kyrgyz and Russians? Michele E. Commercio suggests that the answer to this question lies in the power of informal networks.
Michele E. Commercio teaches political science at the University of Vermont.
"The fate of Russian minorities in former Soviet republics has
attracted considerable attention since the demise of the Soviet
Union. In this book Michele Commercio offers an original
contribution to the literature by focusing on the little-researched
sphere of informal policies to argue that the degree to which
official policies exclude ethnic minorities is in fact inversely
related to their propensity to mobilize and seek redress."
*Dominique Arel, University of Ottawa*
"Commercio is motivated by a genuine intellectual puzzle: why do
ethnic Russians in Latvia (where the state pursues discriminatory
policies against them) generally remain in the country, while their
counterparts in Kyrgyzstan (where the state pursues less
discrimination), generally emigrate to Russia? Her answer is at
once elegant and well conceived; the difference lies in the
stronger interpersonal networks among Russians in Latvia, compared
to weaker ones among Russians in Kyrgyzstan."
*Edward Schatz, University of Toronto*
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