Introduction

This volume explores the intersubjective and spatiotemporal dimensions of migration: resonance, remembrance, and renewal. We argue for the importance of looking at language practices at interactional, national, and global scales, identifying how language policy, identity construction, and rebordering processes take place across these scalar levels. We suggest that affinities become apparent through a ‘resonance’ that provides a sense of community and shapes the diasporic experiences of those whose communicative repertoires include Russian linguistic resources. In particular, we suggest that as a result of the experience of mobility, all who experience some degree of precarity may have a different relationship to the future, and this merits greater theoretical and methodological nuance as we study meaning-making processes in daily life.