Opposition to immigration in contemporary Russia

Anastasia Gorodzeisky

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Abstract

The study examines sources of opposition to immigration in contemporary Russia. It distinguishes between two types of opposition to immigration: exclusionary attitudes based on national membership and exclusionary attitudes based on race or ethnicity, directed exclusively at foreigners with non-Slavic or non-European origins. Findings indicate that a quarter of ethnic Russians can be classified as “racial exclusionists”; they are willing to admit immigrants who share a race/ethnic group with most of Russia’s people but object to the admission of racially/ethnically different immigrants. Another 42% of ethnic Russians are classified as “total exclusionists”; they object to immigration of all foreigners, regardless of their race/ethnicity. Multivariate analysis focuses on the impact of perceived collective vulnerability, human values, and socio-demographic attributes. Opposition to immigration in Russia is further situated within temporal and cross-national comparative perspectives. Apparently, exclusionary attitudes toward immigrants who share a race/ethnicity with most Russians increased between 2006 and 2016.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)205-222
Number of pages18
JournalPost-Soviet Affairs
Volume35
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 May 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Opposition to immigration
  • Russia
  • anti-immigrant attitudes
  • ethnic minorities
  • exclusion
  • human values

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations

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