Educational infrastructure created in conditions of social exclusion

‘Kyrgyz clubs’ for migrant children in Moscow

Bibliographic Data

ID11449863
AuthorsE Demintseva (0000-0001-6402-5010, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume39
Issue2
Pages220-235
Publication date2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral Asian Survey (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-4937 • E-ISSN: 1465-3354
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02634937.2019.1697643
OpenAlexW2996587465
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited30

This article demonstrates how social exclusion affects the strategies that migrants and their children experience vis-à-vis the preschool education system of the host society. We use the example of two private institutions established in Moscow by Kyrgyz migrants to explore their role in helping integrate migrant children into the host society. I examine the role the Kyrgyz community plays in the life of labour migrants in Moscow, and why private migrant infrastructure is created today by people from this particular country, though eventually migrants from other countries use it as well. I find that in recent years migrants have been creating private infrastructure in Russia as an alternative to the public one. It replaces state institutions for migrants that are not accessible to them. Migrants also view it as one of the channels for entering the Russian society and state institutions. These centres do not so much help migrants’ children escape social isolation as compensate for the lack of adjustment programmes in Russian schools

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Isolation (microbiology · Political science · Social exclusion · Sociology · State (computer science · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics