EURUS Professor Paul Goode receives funding through the project “Democracy in Exile (DemEX): A Comparative Study of Russian Migrant Communities following the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine,” with co-PIs Prof. Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University), Zuzanna Brunarska (University of Warsaw), and Ivetta Sergeeva (GWU), as well as Margarita Zavadskaya (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Irina Olimpieva (GWU), Emil Kamalov (GWU), and Daria Dimke (Center for Independent Social Research) as collaborators. The project will be funded by Canada’s SSHRC, National Science Foundation in the US, and (US), and National Science Center in Poland.
Over the next three years, their research will focus on defining the political impact of new Russian émigré communities on host countries and the former’s potential to affect political change in their country of origin. The backbone of the project is OutRush, the online panel survey that deals with the long-term effects of the antiwar migration waves. The survey covers migrants based in 60+ countries, the lion’s share of whom are in the post-Soviet space and in EU member states. The project’s researchers will also conduct in-depth interviews with Russian war-induced emigrants in their destination countries, as well as in Russia in the case of return migrants. The project will further include media monitoring and focus groups with migrant communities in Armenia and Serbia with the aim of assessing how war-induced migration is weaponized in Russia’s domestic and foreign-focused propaganda, as well as migrants’ potential to strengthen or undermine the credibility of media institutions in host countries and in Russia.
More information on the project can be found on the Trans-Atlantic Platform’s website or the Government of Canada’s website.