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Return to the countryside: The return intentions of highly educated young people in the Akmola province of northern Kazakhstan

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 26, Issue 2, March., 2020
Abstract The rural out‐migration of young people leads to problems such as “brain drain” and the overageing of the rural population. The purpose of this paper is to study return migration motives among students originating from rural areas. The case study relates to the province of Akmola, northern Kazakhstan.
Gertrud Buchenrieder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

PARA-ROMANI IN SCANDINAVIA

open access: yesEast European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021
The study of 'language contact' has come very much to the fore in sociolinguistics in recent years, and it is not surprising that Romani, a diaspora language, should receive a good share of attention. Since its very departure from India a millennium ago,
Ian Hancock
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnocultural Behaviour of Migrants in Polyethnic City (Example of the Tajiks of Kazan)

open access: yesYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2018
Basing on the analysis of various sources (statistical, written, and author’s field materials), the features of ethnocultural processes among the Tajik migrants in a large Russian city (Kazan) are considered.
Guzel Stolyarova
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic Momentum and Fertility Responses to Pronatalist Policies: The Case of Ethnic Minorities in Russia

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The problems of ethnic identification and the author’s concept in the historical novel “Tatars” by Güner Akmolla [PDF]

open access: yesКрымское историческое обозрение
Güner Akmolla, a representative of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in Romania is an active participant in the modern literary and artistic process. In her novel “Tatars”, which covers the socio-political events of the mid-nineteenth and early second half of ...
Shevket Yunusov
doaj   +1 more source

The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 233-245, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming ‘more like a Finn’: In‐visibility and the struggle for belonging in Finland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 214-228, September 2025.
Abstract Nationalist practices and visionaries have a profound influence on those who are categorized as ‘foreign’ or ‘non‐belonging’ to the nation. Based on ethnographic explorations among Russian‐speakers and people with diverse Middle Eastern backgrounds in Finland, this article revisits the concept of in‐visibility as one possible avenue to expose ...
Bruno Lefort, Vadim Romashov
wiley   +1 more source

Nations of Plov and Beshbarmak: Central Asian Food and National Identity on the Internet

open access: yes, 2020
The Muslim World, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 107-125, Winter 2020.
Aida Aaly Alymbaeva
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of institutionalization of Muslim communities in Crimea: joining the civil society structures

open access: yesCхід, 2019
The article is devoted to the institutionalization processes within the Muslim communities in the new conditions of political transformations in Ukraine.
Ievgeniia Gotska
doaj   +1 more source

When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.
Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
wiley   +1 more source

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