Expulsions in the Russian North: migration processes and neoliberal policy

The article summarizes the results of a long-term study of changes in living conditions of the population in the North during the formation of trade capitalism and the spread of neoliberal policy. Expulsion is considered as an institutionally organized way of exception in the form of state policy, a...

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Main Authors: Tatyana S. LYTKINA, Andrey V. SMIRNOV
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Northern Arctic Federal University 2019
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2019.37.94
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:50eb101917de42f7ad44fd7dac82fe4c 2023-05-15T18:07:56+02:00 Expulsions in the Russian North: migration processes and neoliberal policy Tatyana S. LYTKINA Andrey V. SMIRNOV 2019-12-01 https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2019.37.94 http://arcticandnorth.ru/upload/iblock/c04/77_97.pdf https://doaj.org/article/50eb101917de42f7ad44fd7dac82fe4c en ru eng rus Northern Arctic Federal University doi:10.17238/issn2221-2698.2019.37.94 2221-2698 http://arcticandnorth.ru/upload/iblock/c04/77_97.pdf https://doaj.org/article/50eb101917de42f7ad44fd7dac82fe4c undefined Арктика и Север, Vol 37, Pp 77-97 (2019) social exclusion expulsions migration processes neoliberal policy northern regions of russia development and colonization demo scipo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2019 fttriple https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2019.37.94 2023-01-22T17:25:37Z The article summarizes the results of a long-term study of changes in living conditions of the population in the North during the formation of trade capitalism and the spread of neoliberal policy. Expulsion is considered as an institutionally organized way of exception in the form of state policy, actively supporting social polarization, contributing to consumer way of natural resource development and extensive use of before-built infrastructure, and accompanied by the isolation of the experience, disregard of the interests and violation of the rights of residents. The article proves that Soviet policy, interested in attracting labor to develop the Russian North and used a distribution system of goods for these purposes, did not contribute much to the consolidation of labor migrants in the northern territories as it initiated their return to the homeland at the end of their labor biography. The position of a “temporary worker” was formed by the proposed privileges, which served a compensation for work in adverse climatic conditions but did not contribute to the prospects for the development of the northern territories. At the same time, the interests of residents, who turned out to be cut off from prestigious jobs and found themselves in worse living conditions, were regularly ignored, and their rights were unrecognized. If, through vertical mobility and integration into the Soviet distribution system, it was possible to smooth out the inequities in the distribution of benefits, it became more difficult to hide this with the country's transition to the market and the beginning of a new phase of natural resource extraction. Moreover, considering the exclusion processes have become more widespread. Now not only the indigenous peoples of the North but also the second generation of migrants are among the vulnerable groups. The focus of the conflict has shifted and expressed itself in the relations between the residents of the Center and the regions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Russian North Unknown
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Expulsions in the Russian North: migration processes and neoliberal policy
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development and colonization
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description The article summarizes the results of a long-term study of changes in living conditions of the population in the North during the formation of trade capitalism and the spread of neoliberal policy. Expulsion is considered as an institutionally organized way of exception in the form of state policy, actively supporting social polarization, contributing to consumer way of natural resource development and extensive use of before-built infrastructure, and accompanied by the isolation of the experience, disregard of the interests and violation of the rights of residents. The article proves that Soviet policy, interested in attracting labor to develop the Russian North and used a distribution system of goods for these purposes, did not contribute much to the consolidation of labor migrants in the northern territories as it initiated their return to the homeland at the end of their labor biography. The position of a “temporary worker” was formed by the proposed privileges, which served a compensation for work in adverse climatic conditions but did not contribute to the prospects for the development of the northern territories. At the same time, the interests of residents, who turned out to be cut off from prestigious jobs and found themselves in worse living conditions, were regularly ignored, and their rights were unrecognized. If, through vertical mobility and integration into the Soviet distribution system, it was possible to smooth out the inequities in the distribution of benefits, it became more difficult to hide this with the country's transition to the market and the beginning of a new phase of natural resource extraction. Moreover, considering the exclusion processes have become more widespread. Now not only the indigenous peoples of the North but also the second generation of migrants are among the vulnerable groups. The focus of the conflict has shifted and expressed itself in the relations between the residents of the Center and the regions.
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