Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism by Anton Popov

Author:Anton Popov [Popov, Anton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies, General
ISBN: 9781317155805
Google: 46dTDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10T06:02:57+00:00

Finally, attention should be paid to the role which regional discourses of inter-ethnic relations play in Greeks’ perception of the threat to their ‘right’ to migrate to Greece. Although the Ministry’s investigation highlighted some instances of corruption among the Consulate clerks, the local Greeks’ fear that their privileged Greek-ness could be adulterated reveals also local xenophobic attitudes towards migrants from other North Caucasian regions and Transcaucasia. In fact, the stereotype of these migrants as people engaged in criminal and / or commerce-oriented activities is widespread in post-Soviet Russia and particularly sharply articulated in Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Adygea (Savva and Savva, 2002, pp. 73–4).

The legacy of communist ideology is still powerful and commerce is seen as shameful and parasitical (Kaneff, 2002, p. 40). The word spekuliant (profiteer) remains the scornful name for private traders everywhere in the post-Soviet space (Humphrey, 2002, p. 59). The ability of migrants to buy and sell everything at a profit is exaggerated in xenophobic hate speeches, where the threat is that strangers (migrants are usually assumed to be ethnically different from the locals) will buy up the local land or, as in the Greek case, obtain Greek identity, by bribery.

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