Invisible community: Russians in London and Amsterdam

Helen Kopnina

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Invisible community: Russians in London and Amsterdam

Helen Kopnina^*

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Abstract

Crossing boundaries in the context of migration is often associated with border crossings, where boundaries are seen merely as demarcating nation states. Yet, migration, like other global phenomena, has become more complex than just leaving one nation-state for another. Recent literature on migration speaks of migrants as constantly moving, crossing national borders not only to settle in the host country, but in order to carry out business or to visit relatives abroad, forming transient transnational communities (Gardner 1995; Raj 1997; Kroes 2000; Rouse 2002; Rex 2003).

Migrants from Eastern Europe are particularly notorious for relatively unobstructed border-crossings, as thousands of...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Crossing European Boundaries
Subtitle of host publication	Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories
Editors	Jaro Stacul, Christina Moutsou, Helen Kopnina
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Chapter	6
Pages	103-119
Number of pages	17
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781782387251
ISBN (Print)	9781845453053, 9781845451509
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1x76dt9.10
Publication status	Published - Dec 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Name	New Directions in Anthropology
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Volume	24

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Invisible community: Russians in London and Amsterdam. / Kopnina, Helen.
Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories. ed. / Jaro Stacul; Christina Moutsou; Helen Kopnina. 1st. ed. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. p. 103-119 (New Directions in Anthropology; Vol. 24).

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