ABSTRACT
The ‘otherness’ of Russians returning from the former Soviet republics-as perceived by both the migrants themselves and the receiver communitycannot be equated to that embedded in a securitized immigration debate found in other European countries today; ‘other’ Russians remain, after all, ‘other’ Russians. This does not close the debate about displacement and national identity, however, but rather opens a new chapter in it, since the presence of another Russianness raises fundamental questions about the relationship between ethnicity, territory, nation and identity in post-Soviet Russia.
