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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Unlike in Paris or Berlin, where migrants live in districts that they consider their own, and researchers define them as "urban ghetto," we found no such places in Moscow. In Moscow, any district a migrant visits most often or where he lives can become "his place." Spurred by upcoming legislative elections in 2014, debates over migration currently dominate the Russian mass media. A negative image of the migrant has developed as someone who appears of the blue, lives in mysterious "inflatable" apartments, poses "a threat to society," and takes jobs away from local workers. In fact, Moscow city authorities are drafting a code for Moscow residents directed mainly against migrant workers. Young people living in the Moscow suburbs are resorting to radical measures in an attempt to solve migration "problems," thereby fueling conflicts and violence.
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