Madeleine Reeves is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and an affiliate of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
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Published in: oDRPrejudice - always a vote winner
Moscow’s mayoral elections have seen a sharp rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric —language common in Europe, but...
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Published in: oDRBeyond the gastarbeiter: the other side of post-Soviet migration
The collapse of the Soviet Union left desperate human situations in its wake: prices shot up, wages weren’t paid and...
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Published in: oDR“Nelegaly”: work and shelter in migrant Moscow
Ten days ago, an “underground town” of migrant workers was discovered below a military factory in Moscow. The...
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Published in: oDROsh report: quick conclusions, lost opportunities
Poorly researched, political and overly assertive, the official report into last year’s violence in Osh and...
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Published in: oDRThe ethnicisation of violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Media talk of ‘ethnic conflict’ in Kyrgyzstan is misleading, in that it takes ethnicity to be causal. This does not...
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Published in: oDRBreaking point: why the Kyrgyz lost their patience
Kyrgyzstan is suffering from a crisis of governance, reports Madeleine Reeves. But an analysis of the problems that...