Past Event

READ iAffairs interviews with Dr. Nikolko and Anna Slavina HERE!

A book launch for Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas: From Global Perspectives to Everyday Practices (Palgrave-Macmillan 2017) will feature Anna Slavina (University of Toronto), Dr. Milana Nikolko (Carleton University) and Dr. David Carment (Carleton University).

This event will be open to the public. The event will be promoted among diaspora organizations, embassies, academics and students, governmental institutions.

In addition to providing an overview of each of the chapters, this book launch will provide  detailed information on the dynamics of post-Soviet migration and diasporas and an up-to-date analysis of the impact that Russian and other post-Soviet diaspora are having on their host states in Europe, North America and Central Asia. The book launch will be of interest not only to researchers of diaspora and Post Studies, but representatives of the diplomatic corps, government institutions, diaspora organizations and to the broader multicultural and multi-ethnic Ottawa community.

Event Agenda:

Opening Remarks – Dr. David Carment

Post-Soviet Migration in Global Perspective – Dr. Milana Nikolko

Jewish Russians, Russian Israelis and ‘Jewski’ Canadians: Youth and the Negotiation of Identity and Belonging – Anna Slavina

Discussion and Q&A

This event is open to the public and no registration is required to attend. This event is co-hosted by EURUS, iAffairs (Canadian Foreign Policy Journal) and Migration & Diaspora Studies.

The volume, Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas: From Global Perspectives to Everyday Practices, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2017 as part of the series Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship under the direction of Robin Cohen and Zig Layton-Henry (eds).