ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to isolate the key elements of the movements framework, the ways in which it is applied in building the discourse and narratives around migration processes in Russia. It demonstrates that the social movement against immigration employs racialization practices of exclusion to achieve full citizenship for the majority of the population, represented as ethnic Russians. The anti-immigration social movement communicates an image of unity of opinion and solidarity. Strategies for breaking up a movement of social protest by underprivileged groups, on the part of the state and the state-controlled media, have a double significance. The dialectical process repairing the civic solidarity had an ethno-racial basis for mobilization, which is explained by Russia's history and the availability of cognitive frameworks and other resources for mobilization. The fact that civil connections under the condition of restrictions of civil society take the form of spontaneous reactions to the racialized incidents only raises the chances of future conflicts.
