Overview
- Examines migration patterns in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
- Examines the causes of migration, the socio-demographic composition of immigrants, their life and work situation as well as aspects of their integration in host countries
- Offers case studies on various migration trends from CIS countries
- Based on various statistical information sources, such as population census and migrant surveys in selected countries of the former USSR, as well as qualitative research, including migrant interviews
Part of the book series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition (SOCPOT)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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The Old Centers of Gravitation
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New Times: New Roads
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mikhail Denisenko is a Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography and the Head of the Department of Demography at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (NRU-HSE, Russia). His research interests include demographic analysis and projections, migration regulation, and population and development of the post-Soviet states. He has participated in various research projects, including ‘Replacement migration’ (UN Population Division, 2000), and numerous UNFPA activities in the former Soviet Republics.
Matthew Light is an Associate Professor of Criminology and European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received his doctorate in Political Science from Yale University in 2006. His research focuses on migration regulation, law enforcement, and criminal justice in post-Soviet countries. His book, Fragile Migration Rights: Freedom of Movement in Post-Soviet Russia,was published by Routledge in 2016. His work has also appeared in various journals, including Theoretical Criminology, Post-Soviet Studies, and Europe-Asia Studies.
Salvatore Strozza is a Full Professor of Demography at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), Department of Political Sciences. He is the coordinator of the bachelor degree program in Political Science and master’s degrees in International Relations. He is on the editorial board of two international journals: Genus and Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies. He was the Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP). His main fields of research are international migration in Europe and foreign immigration and presence in Italy.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration from the Newly Independent States
Book Subtitle: 25 Years After the Collapse of the USSR
Editors: Mikhail Denisenko, Salvatore Strozza, Matthew Light
Series Title: Societies and Political Orders in Transition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36074-0Published: 28 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36077-1Published: 28 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36075-7Published: 27 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2511-2201
Series E-ISSN: 2511-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 552
Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations
Topics: Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Migration, Human Geography, Population Economics, Demography
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology