BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute's \;Central Asia and the Caucasus In itiative presents Margaret Hanson from Middlebury College.Russia’s 2022 in vasion of Ukraine triggered the immediate outmigration of its citizens\, h undreds of thousands of whom fled to the Caucasus and Central Asia. Yet\, extant theories of conflict-based migration offer limited insight into why so many Russians left suddenly in response to the war. Nor can they accou nt for the reversal of flows of skilled labor migration\, which had previo usly gone to the metropole. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus group s with first-wave Russian emigres\, we find that the domestic support for the invasion intensified opposition-minded Russians’ sense of political al ienation\, while legal repression motivated their immediate exit. However\ , the globalization of white-collar labor shaped who left. Finally\, migra tion policy and a lower cost of living\, in conjunction with other colonia l legacies\, shaped legal and economic mobility in ways that drew Russians to Central Asia and the Caucasus.Margaret Hanson is a political economist and sociolegal scholar. Her research examines how law\, politics and econ omics interact to shape state-society relations in former Soviet states\, particularly autocracies. This includes projects focused on migration\, de mocracy and citizenship\, corruption\, and economic governance. Her work h as been published in Perspectives on Politics\, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, Europe-Asia Studies\, Law and Social Inquiry\, and Pro blems of Post-Communism\, and her book\, Seeking a Corruption Equilibrium: Authoritarian Legality in Central Asia\, is under review. DTEND:20250925T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260518T130201Z DTSTART:20250925T180000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Post-Invasion Russian Migration: Exit as Voice in Central Asia and Caucasus for the Mobile UID:RFCALITEM639146917213332639 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute's \;Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiative presents Margaret Hanson from Middlebury Coll ege.

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered the immediate outmigration of its citizens\, hundreds of thousands of whom fled to the C aucasus and Central Asia. Yet\, extant theories of conflict-based migratio n offer limited insight into why so many Russians left suddenly in respons e to the war. Nor can they account for the reversal of flows of skilled la bor migration\, which had previously gone to the metropole. Drawing on in- depth interviews and focus groups with first-wave Russian emigres\, we fin d that the domestic support for the invasion intensified opposition-minded Russians’ sense of political alienation\, while legal repression motivate d their immediate exit. However\, the globalization of white-collar labor shaped who left. Finally\, migration policy and a lower cost of living\, i n conjunction with other colonial legacies\, shaped legal and economic mob ility in ways that drew Russians to Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Margaret Hanson is a political econ omist and sociolegal scholar. Her research examines how law\, politics and economics interact to shape state-society relations in former Soviet stat es\, particularly autocracies. This includes projects focused on migration \, democracy and citizenship\, corruption\, and economic governance. Her w ork has been published in Perspectives on Politics\, the Jour nal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, Europe-Asia Studies\, Law and Social Inquiry\, and Problems of Post-Communism\ , and her book\, Seeking a Corruption Equilibrium: Authoritarian Legal ity in Central Asia\, is under review.

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