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Migration and Islam in Russia
Central Asian Migrants and the Transformation of Muslim Spaces in Moscow
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This study is a compelling ethnographic journey into the lives of Central Asian migrants whose labour sustains Russian cities while their faith, mobility and belonging remain closely scrutinised. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, the book reveals how migrants navigate informal economies, police surveillance, racialised exclusion and everyday precarity, while Islam offers ethical orientation, community and survival strategies. It challenges simplistic views of migration, religion and integration by showing how state power, labour markets and moral worlds intersect in daily life. Essential reading for scholars, students and policy audiences interested in migration, Islam, Russia and post-Soviet societies today globally.
Rano Turaeva, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, LMU Munich, is a habilitated anthropologist specializing in Central Asia, migration, Islam and post-Soviet societies. She is the author of Migration and Identity (Routledge, 2016), and co-editor with Rustamjon Urinboyev of Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2021).
Migration and Islam in Russia provides an innovative and much needed framework to analyze the way migrants weave their own social, economic, and religious orders transnationally and in the face of hostile regimes. Rano Turaeva traces migrants agency in constructing infrastructures of trust, survival, and caring building on the moral authority and economy of a lived Islam. Turaevaâs book is a pathbreaking contribution to the intersection of migration studies, urban studies, and religious studies.
Nina Glick Schiller, Professor Emeritus University of Manchester, Research Partner, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Editor Anthropological Theory
Rano Turaevaâs book provides a masterful insight into a major knowledge gap concerning Russian studies: on the one hand, widespread racism (with the fundamental distinction between Slavic and non-Slavic) and police harassment of Muslims; on the other, the resourcefulness, initiative and solidarity demonstrated by Muslim immigrants in a context marked by insecurity and informality. A remarkable work that subtly combines analysis of contextual constraints and analysis of actorsâ agency, in depth fieldwork and grounded theory, anthropology and institutionalism.
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
Nina Glick Schiller, Professor Emeritus University of Manchester, Research Partner, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Editor Anthropological Theory
Rano Turaevaâs book provides a masterful insight into a major knowledge gap concerning Russian studies: on the one hand, widespread racism (with the fundamental distinction between Slavic and non-Slavic) and police harassment of Muslims; on the other, the resourcefulness, initiative and solidarity demonstrated by Muslim immigrants in a context marked by insecurity and informality. A remarkable work that subtly combines analysis of contextual constraints and analysis of actorsâ agency, in depth fieldwork and grounded theory, anthropology and institutionalism.
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
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Introduction
Part I: Concepts and Contexts
Chapter 1. Theorising Muslim Orders in Russia: migrantsâ lives and spiritual ordering of migration in Russia
Chapter 2. Migration policies in Russia: policing migrants
Chapter 3: The history of Muslim politics in post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia
Chapter 4. The Administration of Islam and ethnic belonging
Part II: Ethnographies of Muslim Orders
Chapter 5. Genealogy of Political Islam in Post-Soviet Russia
Chapter 6. Muslim Orders around mosques in Moscow
Chapter 7: The economic and moral aspects of Muslim Orders
Chapter 8. Health and alternative healing in Islam
Part III: Conclusion
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I: Concepts and Contexts
Chapter 1. Theorising Muslim Orders in Russia: migrantsâ lives and spiritual ordering of migration in Russia
Chapter 2. Migration policies in Russia: policing migrants
Chapter 3: The history of Muslim politics in post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia
Chapter 4. The Administration of Islam and ethnic belonging
Part II: Ethnographies of Muslim Orders
Chapter 5. Genealogy of Political Islam in Post-Soviet Russia
Chapter 6. Muslim Orders around mosques in Moscow
Chapter 7: The economic and moral aspects of Muslim Orders
Chapter 8. Health and alternative healing in Islam
Part III: Conclusion
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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