The paper sheds light on the composition of the institution of propiska regime in post-Soviet
urban space as part of the post-Soviet policies of mobility control and migration restrictions …

By elaborating on the findings of two data sets collected in both Uzbekistan and Japan, this
paper demonstrates that Japan has increasingly become a new frontier for Uzbek …

This paper aims to introduce the concept of capitalising precarity to analyse the situation of
precarious migration in migrant unfriendly contexts such as Russia. The material analysed in …

Russian regional governments have shown remarkable variation in prohibiting immigrants
from working in specific economic sectors. Why do regions enact immigration bans in some …

This introduction to the special issue outlines important anthropological insights into debt
relations and relations of indebtedness drawing on my own research on post-Soviet …

Post‐Soviet authoritarianisms have seen many faces where mobilities skyrocked (tens of
millions of migrants in Russia from Central Asia) and economies collapsed. Mobilities and …

Je tiens à remercier chaleureusement Olivier Ferrando, Carolina Kobelinsky, Françoise
Lestage et Julien Thorez pour la pertinence de leurs commentaires sur cet éditorial. Toutes …

Why do some authoritarian states adopt more restrictive immigration policies than others?
Much of the existing literature focuses on the politics of immigration in democracies, despite …

Ever since the disintegration of the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has focused its
energies on not letting the Central Asian republics—former constituents of the Soviet …

Any relations and practices of debt within credit networks include not only pure economic
exchange, such as barter or non-monetary exchange, but diverse kinds of social relations of …