Soviet Minorities on the Fence: Ethnic Russians between Estonia, the Russian Federation, and the international community

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Cartographic

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Belarus
  • Estonia
  • Russian Federation
  • Ukraine