Impact of War Experience on Migrants’ Social Adaptation

Issues of migrants’ social adaptation based on deep biographical interviews are discussed. The study was conducted in 2018 in the Republic of Karelia among immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia: Avars, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Dargins, Ingush, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Chechens. All respondents belong to the category of forced migrants who came to the territory of Karelia mainly from the mid-1980s until 2013 as a result of local military conflicts. The study uses the method of biographical standards – repetitive biographical structures and discourses allowing key problems of adaptation to life in new conditions for migrants to be identified. The analysis of the data is supported the definition of key content categories, detection of contradictions and doubts that allow to penetrate conflicts between individuals and society and understand challenges of social adaptation in the new region. Biographical standards and typical content categories testify to the displacement of traumatic experience of local wars for migrants by the issues of successful inclusion in the host society, mimicry to it. Even memory of the Great Patriotic war and its consolidating potential in terms of interethnic relations serve these interests.

Keywords

migrants, migration, social adaptation, identity, standard of biography, interview, local wars

Acknowledgment

The study was carried out under state order of Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Received

14.03.2020

Publication date

16.03.2020

Number of characters

20478

Cite

GOST	Yalovitsyna S. Impact of «War Experience» on Migrants’ Social Adaptation // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2020. – Issue 3 C. 131-137 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250008807-0-1-en (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250008807-0
MLA	Yalovitsyna, Svetlana E. "Impact of «War Experience» on Migrants’ Social Adaptation." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 3 (2020):131-137. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250008807-0
APA	Yalovitsyna S. (2020). Impact of «War Experience» on Migrants’ Social Adaptation. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (3), pp.131-137 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250008807-0

100 rub.

When subscribing to an article or issue, the user can download PDF, evaluate the publication or contact the author. Need to register.

Number of purchasers: 0, views: 1160

Readers community rating: votes 0

1. Ассман А. Длинная тень прошлого. Мемориальная культура и историческая политика. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. [Assman A. (2014) Long Shadow of the Past. Memorial Culture and the Historical Policy. Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. (In Russ.)].

2. Нагурная С.В. Повышение престижа младописьменных языков Карелии // Folklore and Written Traditions of the Finno-Ugric Peoples. Abstracts of the 5th Day of Agricola Conference. Tartu Narva: University of Tartu Narva College. 2017. С. 52–54. [Nagurnaya S.V. (2017) Increasing the Prestige of Young Written Languages of Karelia. In: Folklore and Written Traditions of the Finno-ugric Peoples. Abstracts of the 5th Day of Agricola Conference. Tartu Narva: University of Tartu Narva College: 52–54. (In Russ.)].

3. Щербакова Д.И. Этнические стереотипы в русско-чеченских отношениях. Ростов н/Д: СКНЦ ВШ ЮФУ, 2009. [Shcherbakova D.I. (2009) Ethnic Stereotypes in Russian-Chechen Relations. Rostov-on-Don: SKNTs VSh YuFU. (In Russ.)].

4. Alheit P. (1990) Biographizität als Projekt. Der „biographische Ansatz“ in der Erwachsenenbildung. Werkstattberichte des Forschungsschwerpunkts Arbeit und Bildung. Bremen: Donat Verlag. (In Germ.)

5. Bauer S. von (2018) Biografische Lern- und Bildungserfahrungen alleinerziehender Mütter. Eine qualitative Analyse. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. DOI: 10.20378/irbo-51436. (In Germ.)

6. Felden H. von, Schmidt-Lauff S. (2015) Transitionen in der Erwachsenenbildung: Übergänge im gesellschaftlichen Wandel, im Fokus von Forschung und aus Sicht pädagogischer Professionalität. In: Transitionen in der Erwachsenenbildung. Gesellschaftliche, institutionelle und individuelle Übergänge / S. Schmidt-Lauff, H. von Felden, H. Pätzold. Opladen; Berlin; Toronto: Budrich: 11‑16. (In Germ.)

7. Flick U. (1995) Qualitative Forschung. Reinbeck; Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. (In Germ.)

8. Heinze T. (1995) Qualitative Sozialforschung. Opladen: Leske + Budrich. (In Germ.)

9. Ludwig J. (2005) Bildung und expansives Lernen. Hessische Blätter für Volksbildung, 4. (In Germ.)