How New Mukhajirs from Russia live inTurkey. Migration of Russian Muslims in the 2000s

The author analyses reasons for the migration of Russian Muslims to Turkey in the 2000s. Factors contributing to emigration and ways of legal, linguistic and household adaptation of migrants are considered. The author emphasizes that migration to Turkey from Russia is far from the first and allocates several waves of migrations since the fall of the Crimean Khanate. The paper notes an interesting phenomenon that despite the existence of a large Caucasian (Circassian) diaspora in Turkey, it does not provide systematic assistance to new Muslims migrants from Russia.

The article notes that changes in the migration legislation of Turkey since April 2018 have complicated the legalization of the status of "new muhajirs." The so-called tourist residence permit, which they renewed every year online, can now be issued only once, and every new registration of a residence permit in Turkey should have a different justification.

The emphasis is on the ways of self-organization of Russian Muslims in Turkey and on the intellectual projects that they initiated. The "new Muhajirs" successfully implemented the project of the free Islamic online-academy "Medina". In Istanbul also there is one of the major offices of the television channel for Russian-speaking Muslims Alif TV.

At present, the tendencies of the self-organization of Russian Muslims in Turkey are growing. In September 2017 in Istanbul the Congress of the Muhajirian public organizations of Istanbul was held, the Federation of the Mukhajirs of the World was established. A forecast is given about the further perspectives of Russian Muslims migration to Turkey. The author considers the legitimacy of the term "New Muhajirs" to Muslims from Russia in Turkey. The author notes that among radical Russian Muslims in Turkey there is a tendency of transition from radical to moderate position.

Keywords

Russia, temporary migration, Islam, Turkey, "New Muhajirs", the North Caucasus

Received

09.10.2018

Publication date

14.10.2018

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32474

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GOST	Nefliasheva N. How «New Mukhajirs» from Russia live inTurkey. Migration of Russian Muslims in the 2000s // Asia and Africa Today – 2018. – Issue 8 C. 27-34 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://asaf-today.ru/S032150750000503-5-1 (circulation date: 19.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032150750000503-5
MLA	Nefliasheva, Naima "How «New Mukhajirs» from Russia live inTurkey. Migration of Russian Muslims in the 2000s." Asia and Africa Today 8 (2018):27-34. DOI: 10.31857/S032150750000503-5
APA	Nefliasheva N. (2018). How «New Mukhajirs» from Russia live inTurkey. Migration of Russian Muslims in the 2000s. Asia and Africa Today (8), pp.27-34 DOI: 10.31857/S032150750000503-5

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