ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to explore the experiences of ‘repatriation’ and resettlement of ethnic Russians and other Russian speaking migrants who have arrived on the territory of the Russian Federation from other former republics of the Soviet Union.1 It examines the Russian migration regime: the development of institutional structures (governmental and non-governmental), migration legislation, migration discourses, the place of repatriation within the debate and the resultant migrant resettlement policy. The chapter also analyses migrant responses and regional migrant resettlement policies in Saratov oblast (Volga region). This allows for an exploration of the constructed nature of the migration of ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking populations to the Russian Federation as well as the meaning of this process for the individual migrant.2
