'Who’s a migrant in postsocialist Europe?': Popular Imagination and Geopolitical Changes

Authors: Inna Leykin, Anastasia Gorodzeisky

The Open University of Israel, Tel Aviv University

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How do past political processes shape current perceptions of #migration? New study on #Soviet Union-era policies and perceptions of #migrants in the Baltic states today, with A. #Gorodzeisky & I #Leykin in Comparative Migration Studies 🔓:
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That acceptance of inequality doesn’t separate left- and right-wing individuals in Eastern Europe, only in Western Europe. See mainly Thorisdottir et al. (2007) and Aspelund et al. (2013) - but also Wojcik et al. (2021) and Leykin and Gorodzeisky (2023).