Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia

Rustamjon Urinboyev

book: Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2020

Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes

Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia

Rustamjon Urinboyev

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520971257

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While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia—an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwide—and investigates how Central Asian migrant workers produce new forms of informal governance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political system to navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiate—using informal channels—access to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts.

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Urinboyev Rustamjon :

Rustamjon Urinboyev is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University and Senior Researcher in Russian and Eurasian Studies at University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Transliteration and Naming Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Understanding Migrants’ Legal Adaptation in Hybrid Political Regimes Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Migration, the Shadow Economy, and Parallel Legal Orders in Russia Open Access Download PDF	27
3. Uzbek Migrant Workers in Russia: A Case Study Open Access Download PDF	48
4. Uzbek Migrants’ Everyday Encounters with Employers and Middlemen Open Access Download PDF	62
5. Uzbek Migrants’ Everyday Encounters with Street-Level Institutions Open Access Download PDF	81
6. Uzbek Migrants’ Everyday Encounters with Police Officers and Immigration Officials Open Access Download PDF	97
7. The Life Histories of Three Uzbek Migrant Workers in Russia Open Access Download PDF	117
8. Informality, Migrant Undocumentedness, and Legal Adaptation in Hybrid Political Regimes Open Access Download PDF	136
Notes Open Access Download PDF	143
References Open Access Download PDF	145
Index Open Access Download PDF	163

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 184

eBook

Published: December 1, 2020
ISBN: 9780520971257