Language Border: Language in FSU Migration

Outputs by Polina Kliuchnikova & Andy Byford

Journal Special Issue

Andy Byford & Olga Bronnikova (eds.), Enjeux politiques des migrations post-soviétiques = Politics in Post-Soviet Migration. Special issue of Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 49 (4): Presses Universitaires de France.

Articles

Andy Byford & Bronnikova, Olga, 'Transnational Exopolities: Politics in Post-Soviet Migration', Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 2018, 49 (4), pp. 5-25.

Oksana Morgunova & Andy Byford, 'Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain: The Dilemmas of Russian Migrants’ Political Mobilizations', Revue d’Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 2018, 49 (4), pp. 129-161.

Papers

10 July 2019
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Language Performance and Metalinguistic Reflexivity among Post-Soviet Migrants in Russian Cities' at the 5th International Conference 'Andalusian Slavic Studies Workdays' (9-11 July 2019, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain).

12 April 2019
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Talking to the City: Post-Soviet Migrants in Russia's Urban Spaces on their Attachment to and Communication with the City' at the Multilingual Urban Space: Policy, Identity, Education international conference at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow.

• Talking to the City: Post-Soviet Migrants in Russia's Urban Spaces on their Attachment to and Communication with the City abstract (.pdf)

28 February 2019
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'The "Russian Word": Power and Potentiality in Russian Language Provision in Dushanbe' at 'Urban Multilingualism in Contemporary Moscow and Dushanbe' workshop at the Princess Dashkova Centre, Edinburgh University.

• Urban Multilingualism in Contemporary Moscow and Dushanbe abstracts (.pdf)

26-27 September 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Voices on the Move: Narratives of Mobility and (Trans)Linguistic Performance of Post-Soviet Migrants in Russia’s Urban Environments' at the 3rd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration, Sestri Levante (organised by the University of Turin).

• Voices on the Move: Narratives of Mobility and (Trans)Linguistic Performance of Post-Soviet Migrants in Russia’s Urban Environments abstract (.pdf)

6-8 September 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Discourses on Language Proficiency and Performance Among FSU Migrants in Russian Cities' at the 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics (ICS.2), Budapest (organised by Eötvös Loránd University).

• Discourses on Language Proficiency and Performance Among FSU Migrants in Russian Cities abstracts (.pdf)

21 June 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'The "Russian World" and the "Russian Word": Presence, Power and Potentiality in Contemporary Dushanbe' at the workshop Russia and the Russian Worlds: International, Multinational, Transnational, Hatfield College SCR, Durham, 10.30am.

• Russia and the Russian Worlds poster (.pdf)

15 June 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Teaching Russian, Learning Multilingualism: Narratives of Linguistic Conviviality in Language Provision for Migrant Learners' at the workshop on 'Post-Soviet Multilingualism and Language Attitudes', Princess Dashkova Centre, University of Edinburgh.

• Teaching Russian, Learning Multilingualism abstract (.pdf)

4-11 June 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova carries out a research trip to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to explore Russian language tuition provisions as part of the preparation of prospective Tajikistani labour migrants for their move to the Russian Federation or other FSU Russian-speaking countries.

• Research visit to Dushanbe report (.pdf)

24-26 May 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Language Provision and Translation Support for Post-Soviet Migrants in Russian Cities' at the 'Language, Translation, and Migration' conference, University of Warwick.

• Language Provision & Translation Support for Post-Soviet Migrants in Russian Cities (.pdf)

15 April 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Language Provision Activism for FSU Migrants in Russian Cities' in the panel 'Russian in the City: Transnational Linguistic Encounters' at the BASSEES annual conference, Cambridge, 13-15 April 2018.

• Language provision activism for FSU migrants in Russian cities (.pdf)

9-10 April 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'FSU Migrants on their 'Audibility' in Russian Urban Environments: Self-reflection, Communication Patterns and Performing Migrant Voices' at the Urban Linguistic Diversity conference, Institute of Linguistics RAS (Moscow, Russia).

• FSU Migrants on their 'Audibility' in Russian Urban Environments (.pdf)

26-27 March 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper '"Language Borders" as Experienced by Post-Soviet Migrants in Russia' at the Language and Border: Rethinking Mobility, Migration and Space conference (Bristol University).

• ‘Language borders’ as experienced by post-Soviet migrant in Russia (.pdf)

23 March 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Testing Linguistic Competence of Would-be Citizens in the Russian Federation' at the workshop ‘Mutations in Citizenship’: Activist and Translational Perpsectives on Migration and Mobility in the Age of Globalisation (Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum, Manchester). See the event's webpage.

28 February 2018
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents her project 'Language Border: Russian in FSU Migration' at the Multilingual Manchester research seminars as part of her visit to Manchester (26.02-01.03.18) to learn about the city's initiatives in English-language provision for migrants associated with the Multilingual Manchester project.

• Research visit to the Multilingual Manchester project report (.pdf)

26-27 October 2017
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Pride vs. Profit: On Language Aspects of Migrant Experiences of Post-Soviet Migrants in Contemporary Russia' at the New Trends and Directions of Migration conference, taking place at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

• Pride vs. Profit presentation (.ppt)

17-18 October 2017
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents her project 'Language Border: Russian in FSU Migration' at the Work-in-Progress Research Meeting of the Cross-Language Dynamics junior researchers (PDRAs, JRFs, PhDs and RAs), 9.30am-3.45pm, MLAC, Durham University, ER1, A29.

• Work-in-progress research meeting (.pdf)

4-7 July 2017
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Language Borders: Entry Certification, Migrant Identities and Support Networks for Former Soviet Union Migration to Russia' at the Sociolinguistics Summer School 8 in Barcelona.

• Language Borders: Entry Certification, Migrant Identities and Support Networks for Former Soviet Union Migration to Russia abstract (.pdf)

25-27 May 2017
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper 'Russophonism in Flux: Language Practices and New Identities of Russian-speaking Migrants in the UK’ as part of the panel 'Russians Abroad: Creating the World Around' at the conference titled ‘On the Other Side and Beyond’ organised by the Centre for Independent Sociological Research in St Petersburg.

• Russophonism in Flux presentation (.pptx)

6 April 2017
Professor Andy Byford presents the outline of the collaborative project titled 'Transnational Exopolities: Politics in Post-Soviet Emigration' at the University Grenoble Alpes.

1 April 2017
Dr Polina Kliuchnikova presents paper '"No Test Better than Life'": Discourses on Language Learning, Certification and Proficiency among Russian-speaking Migrants in the UK' as part of the panel 'Russian-speaking Diasporas in Finland and the UK: Discourses of Language and Identity' at the 2017 BASEES conference in Cambridge (31 March - 2 April).

• No Test Better than Life presentation (.pptx)

31 March 2017
Professor Andy Byford presents on the 'Disaporisation of Russian speakers in the Far Abroad: The Case of the UK in the 2000s' at the University of Grenoble Alpes.