RT Book
T1 Migration and hybrid political regimes: navigating the legal landscape in Russia
A1 Urinboyev, Rustamjon 1983-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1699241678
AB Developing an understanding of migrants' legal adaptation in hybrid political regimes -- Migration, the shadow economy, and parallel legal orders in Russia -- Uzbek migrant workers in Russia : a case study -- Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with employers and middlemen -- Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with street-level institutions -- Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with police officers and immigration officials -- The life histories of three Uzbek migrant workers in Russia -- Discussion and concluding remarks.
AB "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"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 145-162
CN HD5856.R8
SN 978-0-520-29957-3
SN 978-0-520-97125-7
K1 Migrant labor : Legal status, laws, etc : Russia (Federation) : Case studies
K1 Foreign workers : Legal status, laws, etc : Russia (Federation) : Case studies
K1 Uzbekistan : Emigration and immigration : Case studies
K1 Asia, Central : Emigration and immigration : Case studies
K1 Russia (Federation) : Emigration and immigration : Government policy
K1 Russland : Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer : Einwanderer : Usbekistan : Rechtsstellung