The Post-Soviet Diaspora in the United States
Lecture: Claudia Sadowski-Smith: The Post-Soviet Diaspora in the United States and Russia’s War in Ukraine, 02.06.2023, Vienna [REMINDERIN] | Salon 21
Announcement blog for women's and gender history. Reminder: June 2, 2023: Claudia Sadowski-Smith, The Post-Soviet Diaspora in America and Russia's War in Ukraine.
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Katharina Wedlack, in collaboration with the GAIN - Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities research platform at the Univ. GAIN: Gender: Ambivalent Visibilities at the Univ. Vienna (Web).
Time: Fri, Jun 02, 2023, 6:30 pm
Location: University of Vienna main buildings, lecture hall 1, Universitatsring 1 1010 Vienna.
This presentation examines US discourses on Ukrainian migration after Russia's invasion in 2022 and post-Soviet immigration following the collapse of European state socialists in the late 1980s, within the context of US migration and refugees studies and CRT. Post-Soviet migrants, in general, are portrayed as fundamentally different than other nonwhite US migrants by association with mythologized stories of turn-of-the-twentieth century Europeans who attained full integration into pan-European Whiteness through upward mobility. After the Russian invasion, US media began to recognize the transnationality and ethnicity of Ukrainian Americans, thereby making this part of the post-Soviet Diaspora similar to other US migrants. They also used critical narratives about whiteness to emphasize the preferential treatment of Ukrainian refugees by European countries and in the United States, compared with migrant populations that are racialized. This coverage, which highlights the racialization in US and European immigration policies, has obscured the deterioration in their refugee and migration systems as manifested by the inadequacy even of this more privileged response.
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