title: The Images of the Nation in Migrant Social Media: А Comparative Analysis of VKontakte Groups from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
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metadata.value: Tregubova, Natalia D.
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metadata.value: Stepanov, Alexander M.
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metadata.value: Lisitsyn, Pavel P.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-05T12:18:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-05T12:18:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Tregubova N. D., Stepanov A. M., Lisitsyn P. P. The Images of the Nation in Migrant Social Media: А Comparative Analysis of VKontakte Groups from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 398–417. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.212 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.212
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44088
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metadata.value: The paper presents the results of a study that is part of a broader project aimed at analyzing
  online activities of migrants to Russia from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. This research lies at the intersection of migration studies and nationalism
  studies. The authors seek to characterize the images of the nation and related discussions in
  online groups on migration topics. The focus of empirical analysis is five VKontakte groups
  discussing various news and stories about the country of origin, including news on migration
  to Russia. The methods are online observation supplemented by discourse analysis of posts
  and comments. The authors aim to answer the following questions: How do the participants
  construct the images of the nation? What is debatable and what is in consensus? How are the
  images of the nation and Islam related? How is migration to Russia characterized? Basing on
  empirical analysis, the authors characterize three images of the nation: “modernizing state”
  (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), “Muslim nation, but not Islamic state” (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan),
  “nation united by common enemies” (Azerbaijan). For the first one, the main sources
  of tension are class divisions and vectors of nation’s development. For the second one, Islam
  is considered as an important part of the national culture, and there are discussions, which
  type of identity, national or religious, is more significant. The third image is characterized by
  internal divisions which lose their importance in the face of the external enemy. In conclusion
  the authors discuss implications of research results for understanding migration processes in
  the post-Soviet space, including radicalization of migrants.
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metadata.value: The study was supported by Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 18-78-
  10049.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: migration to Russia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transnational migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Azerbaijan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social media
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social networks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Islam
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Images of the Nation in Migrant Social Media: А Comparative Analysis of VKontakte Groups from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
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metadata.value: Article
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