Projects per year
Project Details
Description (abstract)
The project has the following three objectives: (1) to develop a theoretically robust understanding of undocumented migrants’ socio-legal integration in politically hybrid regimes; (2) to produce new ethnographic material about the relationship between undocumented migrants, employers, law-enforcement structures and protection rackets (i.e. ‘parallel legal orders’) in the Russian migrant labour market and (3) to enhance the knowledge about the effects of these processes on societal transformation, role and rule of law and governance trajectories in Russia. These issues will be explored through the socio-legal study of everyday life and experiences of Central Asian migrants in Moscow. Our multidisciplinary project employs a mixed-methods approach and draws on the concepts and theories developed within migration studies, law and society, economic crime, security and public administration studies.
This project advances our understanding of how labour migrants build relationship with law and law-like structures in politically-hybrid regimes. It explores the case of Russia that represents the ever-growing category of hybrid political regimes that are neither democratic nor authoritarian. Analysing migrants’ socio-legal integration in such regimes is a bold initiative as it bridges the knowledge gap on this topic, current studies being mostly limited to analysis of Western-type democracies.
Acronym | MISHA |
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Status | Finished |
Effective start/end date | 01/01/2017 → 31/12/2021 |
Fields of Science
- 517 Political science
- Russian administration
- Migration
- Economic crime
- Central Asia
- 513 Law
- Migration law
- Legal culture
Projects
- 1 Finished
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NON-WESTERN MIGRATION REGIMES: Legal Adaptation of Migrant Workers in Hybrid Political Regimes: Towards Rethinking [Western-centric] Migrant Legal Adaptation Frameworks
Urinboyev, R. (Principal Investigator), Karshiev, M. (Participant) & Eraliev, S. (Other)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
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Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan
Eraliev, S. & Urinboyev, R., 1 Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) Eastern Europe and Eurasia in the Global Age: Narrating Geopolitics and Culture. Ratilainen, S., Turoma, S. & Kaasik-Krogerus, S. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Heusala, A.-L. (Editor), Aitamurto, K. (Editor) & Eraliev, S. (Editor), 10 Dec 2024, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review
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Introduction: The Mutual Impact of Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Heusala, A.-L., Aitamurto, K. & Eraliev, S., 10 Dec 2024, Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Heusala, A.-L., Aitamurto, K. & Eraliev, S. (eds.). Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, p. 1–34Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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ASEEES 2023 Annual Convention
Heusala, A.-L. (Speaker: Presenter)
30 Nov 2023 → 3 Dec 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey: Differences in Gender Perspectives
Eraliev, S. (Invited speaker)
18 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The 20th Aleksanteri Conference Online: Eurasia and Global Migration
Heusala, A.-L. (Chair of organizing committee), Aitamurto, K. (Scientific Committee Vice Chair), Eraliev, S. (Member of organizing committee), Österberg, I. (Secretary of organizing committee), Korteniemi, E. (Secretary of organizing committee), Miklóssy, K. (Member of organizing committee), Zavadskaya, M. (Member of organizing committee), Mitikka, E. (Member of organizing committee) & Into, N. (Member of organizing committee)
27 Oct 2021 → 29 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Press/Media
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Interview with BBC Uzbek Service in Moscow, Russia
02/08/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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MTV/SuomiAreena: Suomi, Venäjä ja pehmeä turvallisuus
16/07/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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La Russia di Putin inquieta la Svezia, e Stoccolma affila de armi
26/05/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media