On-line session. The ‘Migration seminar’. Elena Lyarskaya "Who hasn't migrated here?": Features of migrations and a distributed way of life in the North

On June 3, 2021 an on-line session of the regular "Migration studies" seminar at the Institute of Social Policy of the Higher School of Economics was held. Elena Lyarskaya, Research Fellow, Center for Social Research of the North, European University at St. Petersburg "Who hasn't migrated here?": Features of migrations and a distributed way of life in the North

This presentation, based on many years of field research by the Center for Social Research of the North, discussed the different types of migration currently existing in the Russian North and how these migrations are structured in terms of their social mechanics. In addition, based on the example of the current situation in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, it was considered what consequences such an organization of migration has for the arrangement of modern northern communities, both urban and rural.