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Who counts as a #migrant in post-socialist Europe? 🇪🇺

In #ERSNew piece, Inna Leykin and @gorodzeisky.bsky.social explore how residents of the Baltic States imagine migration, identity & belonging amid shifting geopolitics.

Check this paper here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

The study demonstrates that the imagined figure of the migrant coexists but does not necessarily align with the institutionalized classifications of migrants produced by national and international institutions and frequently used in political debates about national belonging.

We conducted an attitudinal survey, collecting original data on the popular imaginaries of migrants from nationally representative samples in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

“Who’s a migrant in postsocialist Europe?”: Popular imagination and geopolitical changes This paper explores the extent to which geopolitical shifts – the reestablishment of national independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and accession to the EU – are reflected in Baltic S...

In a newly published paper Inna Leykin and I focus on how migrants are imagined in European postsocialist nation states (re)established along new geopolitical borders, and incorporated into a new supranational political union - the EU.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

How do past political processes shape current perceptions of #migration? New study on #Soviet Union-era policies and perceptions of #migrants in the Baltic states today, with A. #Gorodzeisky & I #Leykin in Comparative Migration Studies 🔓:
comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10....