ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on young people's narratives of their everyday life and the adversities they face. It aims to understand how cultural boundaries are constructed and how they affect the lives of young North Caucasians in Russia's North-West. Based on the interviews with young people from the North Caucasus, the chapter analyses how ethnic and racial stereotypes figure in the lives of young North Caucasians and how the young people come to terms with these experiences. The interviewed young people are also preoccupied with the meanings attached to civic identity. Young people are also aware of the occurrence of violence towards ethnic minorities. The chapter reviews young people's positioning vis-a-vis their alleged citizenship and then moves on to discuss racism in its various forms. Exclusion is part of the everyday life of young people of North Caucasian origin. Not everyone has direct experience of it, but, they are all aware of the existence of discrimination in the Russian society.
