Inta Mieriņa
Biographic Data
| ID | 227640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inta Mieriņa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mieriņa |
| SIGNATURE | MIERIŅA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Latvia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-1800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Diaspora as a Community of Practice: Civil Society Engagement in Latvian Diaspora Organisations
Diaspora organisations play a vital role in connecting migrants to their cultural roots, fostering community-building and strengthening the ties between a diaspora and its country of origin. These organisations and informal groups serve a cohesive, unifying and supportive role, characterised by their persistence over time. However, despite the importance of diaspora organisations in maintaining migrant communities, research in this area remains s…
Russian Identity Abroad: Challenges and Transformation Post-2022
Since early 2022, the escalating geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine has markedly reshaped perceptions of "Russianness" and prompted heightened securitization measures targeting Russians in their receiving societies. This has resulted in increasing stigmatization and redefinition of Russians' own sense of cultural and linguistic belonging. For many Russians living outside of Russia, post-2022 their "Russianness" has become both a sit…
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility
There is a growing awareness in migration research that traditional interpretations and approaches to measuring and evaluating integration do not adequately fit the increasingly fluid and unpredictable patterns of migration observed today. Focusing on the transnational and liquid migration characteristic of Eastern European migrants, we propose a new conceptual framework that explains contemporary processes of migrant incorporation from the persp…
Is participation on the move a utopia? The study of EU mobile citizens in Latvia
Rise of remote work across borders: Opportunities and implications for migrant-sending countries
Contact restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the rapid expansion of remote work. With this expansion, new opportunities arise for the typical migrant-sending countries in Central and Eastern Europe to remotely involve their diaspora in their labor market. The aim of this paper is, by using the case study of Latvia, to show the potential of cross-border remote work for alleviating human capital losses caused by emi…
Cultural heritage as interpreted and practiced by young people in non-formal associations in Latvia
This article aims to shed new light on young people’s participation in non-formal associations aimed at safeguarding traditions and national culture. Focusing on two case studies from Latvia within the international project CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future), the study provides an in-depth analysis of how ‘culture’ is understood, practiced, and transmitted in non-formal education settings. The article also discusses what …
Microfoundations of Threat and Security Perceptions in Ethnically Diverse States: Lessons from Russia’s “Near Abroad”
What factors influence the formation of threat perception among the masses? Can the public perceive that external threats exist yet also feel safe? This article investigates both how threat perceptions form, as well as what factors influence security perceptions, in ethnically diverse countries and societies. While drawing on data from two nationally representative surveys, this article inquires to what extent the views of the government and soci…
The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics
This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration in their home country
Minority Reconsidered: Towards a Typology of Latvia’s Russophone Identity
Latvia’s Russophones are often seen as a consolidated ethno-linguistic unit. The goal of this essay is to test this assumption by exploring Russophones’ in-group differentiation over an extended period of time. Conceptually, the essay combines social representation theory with the quadratic nexus model. By analysing cross-sectional survey data it is argued that citizenship of Latvia and generational belonging are two major factors that explain th…
Latvijas emigrantu kopienas: Cerību diaspora
Monogrāfija izstrādāta un izdota ar Eiropas Sociālā fonda finansiālu atbalstu projekta «Latvijas emigrantu kopienas: nacionālā identitāte, transnacionālās attiecības un diasporas politika» (vienošanās Nr. 2013/0055/1DP/1.1.1.2.0/13/APIA/VIAA/040) ietvaros
Support for Far Right Ideology and Anti-Migrant Attitudes among Youth in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
The last decade has seen a notable increase in support for far right parties and an alarming rise of right-wing extremism across Europe. Drawing on a new comparative youth survey in 14 European countries, this article provides deeper insight into young people's support for nationalist and far right ideology: negative attitudes towards minorities, xenophobia, welfare chauvinism and exclusionism in relation to migrants. We first map the support for…
Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context
This paper explores how unequal resources and social and economic polarization affects the size of social networks and their use to access resources. We argue that individual resource position generates divergent expectations with regard to the impact of polarization on the size of networks on one hand, and their usefulness for accessing resources on the other. Social and economic polarization encourages reliance on informal networks, but those a…
Is Communism to Blame for Political Disenchantment in Post-Communist Countries? Cohort Analysis of Adults' Political Attitudes
In this article, we apply a new, original technique of cohort analysis to test empirically whether political disenchantment in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe can be linked to the previous political culture. On the basis of International Social Survey Programme 1996 and 2006 data we find a surprisingly similar and unique cohort effect in all analysed post-communist countries, reflecting persistent generational differenc…
The Vicious Circle
The reaction of citizens deeply disappointed with their government and its decisions differs from country to country, and in some cases, such as Latvia during the recent economic crisis, has been surprisingly passive. In this paper I argue that political passivity can be partly explained by psychological mechanisms triggered by constant under-performance and unresponsiveness of political authorities. Using International Social Survey Program 2006…
Support for Far Right Ideology and Anti-Migrant Attitudes among Youth in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
The last decade has seen a notable increase in support for far right parties and an alarming rise of right-wing extremism across Europe. Drawing on a new comparative youth survey in 14 European countries, this article provides deeper insight into young people's support for nationalist and far right ideology: negative attitudes towards minorities, xenophobia, welfare chauvinism and exclusionism in relation to migrants. We first map the support for…
Minority Reconsidered: Towards a Typology of Latvia’s Russophone Identity
Latvia’s Russophones are often seen as a consolidated ethno-linguistic unit. The goal of this essay is to test this assumption by exploring Russophones’ in-group differentiation over an extended period of time. Conceptually, the essay combines social representation theory with the quadratic nexus model. By analysing cross-sectional survey data it is argued that citizenship of Latvia and generational belonging are two major factors that explain th…
Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context
This paper explores how unequal resources and social and economic polarization affects the size of social networks and their use to access resources. We argue that individual resource position generates divergent expectations with regard to the impact of polarization on the size of networks on one hand, and their usefulness for accessing resources on the other. Social and economic polarization encourages reliance on informal networks, but those a…
Is Communism to Blame for Political Disenchantment in Post-Communist Countries? Cohort Analysis of Adults' Political Attitudes
In this article, we apply a new, original technique of cohort analysis to test empirically whether political disenchantment in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe can be linked to the previous political culture. On the basis of International Social Survey Programme 1996 and 2006 data we find a surprisingly similar and unique cohort effect in all analysed post-communist countries, reflecting persistent generational differenc…
The Vicious Circle
The reaction of citizens deeply disappointed with their government and its decisions differs from country to country, and in some cases, such as Latvia during the recent economic crisis, has been surprisingly passive. In this paper I argue that political passivity can be partly explained by psychological mechanisms triggered by constant under-performance and unresponsiveness of political authorities. Using International Social Survey Program 2006…
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility
There is a growing awareness in migration research that traditional interpretations and approaches to measuring and evaluating integration do not adequately fit the increasingly fluid and unpredictable patterns of migration observed today. Focusing on the transnational and liquid migration characteristic of Eastern European migrants, we propose a new conceptual framework that explains contemporary processes of migrant incorporation from the persp…
Rise of remote work across borders: Opportunities and implications for migrant-sending countries
Contact restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the rapid expansion of remote work. With this expansion, new opportunities arise for the typical migrant-sending countries in Central and Eastern Europe to remotely involve their diaspora in their labor market. The aim of this paper is, by using the case study of Latvia, to show the potential of cross-border remote work for alleviating human capital losses caused by emi…
Is participation on the move a utopia? The study of EU mobile citizens in Latvia
Cultural heritage as interpreted and practiced by young people in non-formal associations in Latvia
This article aims to shed new light on young people’s participation in non-formal associations aimed at safeguarding traditions and national culture. Focusing on two case studies from Latvia within the international project CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future), the study provides an in-depth analysis of how ‘culture’ is understood, practiced, and transmitted in non-formal education settings. The article also discusses what …
Microfoundations of Threat and Security Perceptions in Ethnically Diverse States: Lessons from Russia’s “Near Abroad”
What factors influence the formation of threat perception among the masses? Can the public perceive that external threats exist yet also feel safe? This article investigates both how threat perceptions form, as well as what factors influence security perceptions, in ethnically diverse countries and societies. While drawing on data from two nationally representative surveys, this article inquires to what extent the views of the government and soci…
The Vicious Circle
The reaction of citizens deeply disappointed with their government and its decisions differs from country to country, and in some cases, such as Latvia during the recent economic crisis, has been surprisingly passive. In this paper I argue that political passivity can be partly explained by psychological mechanisms triggered by constant under-performance and unresponsiveness of political authorities. Using International Social Survey Program 2006…
Is Communism to Blame for Political Disenchantment in Post-Communist Countries? Cohort Analysis of Adults' Political Attitudes
In this article, we apply a new, original technique of cohort analysis to test empirically whether political disenchantment in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe can be linked to the previous political culture. On the basis of International Social Survey Programme 1996 and 2006 data we find a surprisingly similar and unique cohort effect in all analysed post-communist countries, reflecting persistent generational differenc…
Latvijas emigrantu kopienas: Cerību diaspora
Monogrāfija izstrādāta un izdota ar Eiropas Sociālā fonda finansiālu atbalstu projekta «Latvijas emigrantu kopienas: nacionālā identitāte, transnacionālās attiecības un diasporas politika» (vienošanās Nr. 2013/0055/1DP/1.1.1.2.0/13/APIA/VIAA/040) ietvaros
Support for Far Right Ideology and Anti-Migrant Attitudes among Youth in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
The last decade has seen a notable increase in support for far right parties and an alarming rise of right-wing extremism across Europe. Drawing on a new comparative youth survey in 14 European countries, this article provides deeper insight into young people's support for nationalist and far right ideology: negative attitudes towards minorities, xenophobia, welfare chauvinism and exclusionism in relation to migrants. We first map the support for…
Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context
This paper explores how unequal resources and social and economic polarization affects the size of social networks and their use to access resources. We argue that individual resource position generates divergent expectations with regard to the impact of polarization on the size of networks on one hand, and their usefulness for accessing resources on the other. Social and economic polarization encourages reliance on informal networks, but those a…
The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics
This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration in their home country
Minority Reconsidered: Towards a Typology of Latvia’s Russophone Identity
Latvia’s Russophones are often seen as a consolidated ethno-linguistic unit. The goal of this essay is to test this assumption by exploring Russophones’ in-group differentiation over an extended period of time. Conceptually, the essay combines social representation theory with the quadratic nexus model. By analysing cross-sectional survey data it is argued that citizenship of Latvia and generational belonging are two major factors that explain th…
Rise of remote work across borders: Opportunities and implications for migrant-sending countries
Contact restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the rapid expansion of remote work. With this expansion, new opportunities arise for the typical migrant-sending countries in Central and Eastern Europe to remotely involve their diaspora in their labor market. The aim of this paper is, by using the case study of Latvia, to show the potential of cross-border remote work for alleviating human capital losses caused by emi…
Cultural heritage as interpreted and practiced by young people in non-formal associations in Latvia
This article aims to shed new light on young people’s participation in non-formal associations aimed at safeguarding traditions and national culture. Focusing on two case studies from Latvia within the international project CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future), the study provides an in-depth analysis of how ‘culture’ is understood, practiced, and transmitted in non-formal education settings. The article also discusses what …
Microfoundations of Threat and Security Perceptions in Ethnically Diverse States: Lessons from Russia’s “Near Abroad”
What factors influence the formation of threat perception among the masses? Can the public perceive that external threats exist yet also feel safe? This article investigates both how threat perceptions form, as well as what factors influence security perceptions, in ethnically diverse countries and societies. While drawing on data from two nationally representative surveys, this article inquires to what extent the views of the government and soci…
Diaspora as a Community of Practice: Civil Society Engagement in Latvian Diaspora Organisations
Diaspora organisations play a vital role in connecting migrants to their cultural roots, fostering community-building and strengthening the ties between a diaspora and its country of origin. These organisations and informal groups serve a cohesive, unifying and supportive role, characterised by their persistence over time. However, despite the importance of diaspora organisations in maintaining migrant communities, research in this area remains s…
Russian Identity Abroad: Challenges and Transformation Post-2022
Since early 2022, the escalating geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine has markedly reshaped perceptions of "Russianness" and prompted heightened securitization measures targeting Russians in their receiving societies. This has resulted in increasing stigmatization and redefinition of Russians' own sense of cultural and linguistic belonging. For many Russians living outside of Russia, post-2022 their "Russianness" has become both a sit…
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility
There is a growing awareness in migration research that traditional interpretations and approaches to measuring and evaluating integration do not adequately fit the increasingly fluid and unpredictable patterns of migration observed today. Focusing on the transnational and liquid migration characteristic of Eastern European migrants, we propose a new conceptual framework that explains contemporary processes of migrant incorporation from the persp…
Is participation on the move a utopia? The study of EU mobile citizens in Latvia
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Diaspora (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works)