Dmitry Timoshkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4461660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dmitry Timoshkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dmitry |
| FAMILY NAME | Timoshkin |
| SIGNATURE | TIMOSHKIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5478-0469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Foreigner, Control and Symbolic Exchange
The article contemplates the process of developing a language by Irkutsk officials to describe migration in the early 1990s. Drawing on the archive they collected, which includes internal documents of the city administration, migration service and police, the authors trace how local self-government bodies and lower structures of federal departments perceived migrants and relations with them. They focus on the social characteristics of migrants th…
Experience of Analyzing Textual Representations of the Structural Integration of Migrants in Russia on Social Media Using the Bert Neural Network
The article explores the “digital traces” of the structural integration of cross-border migrants in Russia by combining qualitative text analysis methods with automatic classifiers. Our goal was to analyze posts related to job and housing searches in migrant communities on VKontakte in order to describe the challenges these individuals face and how they use social media to overcome them. From the wide range of practices falling under the definiti…
Problematization of Migration in the “Texts of Power” As a Discursive Basis of Regional Migration Policy (on the Example of Krasnoyarsk)
The article presents the results of an analysis of perceptions of migrants in press releases and regulatory documents of law enforcement and civil government agencies. We considered these texts within the framework of a "soft" constructionist approach, as a tool for problematizing the social process and one of the key ways of producing the discourse of power. The purpose of the study was to use a combination of quantitative content analysis and d…
Search Engines as Mechanism for Constructing Boundaries of “Imagined Communities” (Case of Internal Migrant Image in Siberian Regional Digital Media)
The article analyzes the process of constructing boundaries of imagined communities by search engines, using the case of the image of internal migrants arriving in Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk. Combining quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors analyzed the image of internal migrants created by the texts that make up the first pages of search results of Google, Yandex, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Mail.ru. They found that in most te…
“They Seem to Exist, but Mostly Virtually so Far”
The article examines the representations of the "diaspora” in texts published on "migrant” digital communication platforms. With the help of discourse analysis The messages posted in open access in thematic groups in VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Telegram channels were studied. The purpose of the study was to find out what meanings and functions the users of these sites give the word "diasporas”. The "Diaspora” was considered as a nodal point, un…
Nationalism, Purity, and Danger
The article explores narratives of the “cross-border intimacy” in Russian-language digital media. The text arrays generated by migrants, representatives of the host community, and professional journalists in digital media are analyzed. We identified and compared the meanings that are given to marriages between migrants and “locals”. Texts were selected from 10 of the most quoted Russian Internet media, city public sites of the largest Russian soc…
Social Media as a Mechanism for Developing and Reproducing Migration Strategies (Using the Example of Digital Platform Profiles of Russian-Speaking Migrants in Korea)
This article analyzes texts written by users of Russian-language digital communication platforms on the topic of emigration to the Republic of Korea. The purpose of the study was to determine what meanings are attributed to the Republic in these texts, and how these images can affect the migration strategies of Russian-speaking migrants. The texts were sourced from relevant communities inside the largest social networks by the number of Russian-s…
“They Seem to Exist, but Mostly Virtually so Far”
“They Seem to Exist, but Mostly Virtually so Far”
Monument” versus “dilapidation”
The article analyzes the practices of the discursive marking of “places of memory” and their role in the construction of urban spaces of Siberian regional capitals. The author describes the areas of high-rise residential development formed in the 19th-20th centuries, defined in Russian urban narratives as the “private sector”. The latter is considered as a “nodal point” in the urban semiotic system. It is shown that some communities consider the …
Dreams about an Overcome Boundary
The article analyzes the images of the Irkutsk city center in the memories of the representatives of two marginal groups — street children and venders, who lived and worked there from 1999 to 2006, as well as its mo dern images in the public statements of the urban elites. The aim of the study is to identify the functions that the city center performed during the years of deep social transformations and to reveal why today one wants to forget abo…
Migrants and Spatial Marginality in Urban Digital Media (The Case of Irkutsk)
The article analyzes “migrant” spaces created in Irkutsk by journalists and users of urban digital media. We considered professional news agencies, groups in Vkontakte, and forums as a tool for “space production” in combining many autobiographical descriptions of interaction with the city, images, and publicistic texts into an integral socio-spatial image. We were interested in how the texts’ authors of digital media integrate migrants into the “…
“You Are No Longer Here”
ВАС ЗДЕСЬ БОЛЬШЕ НЕ ЖИВЕТ»: ВНУТРЕННЯЯ КОЛОНИЗАЦИЯ И ГОРОДСКИЕ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ РЕЖИМЫ ИРКУТСКА И
Construction of Horizontal Networks on “Migrant” Russian-Language Digital Platforms
The article discusses the Russian-language “migrant” groups in the social networking service “Vkontakte.” The author analyses mechanisms of constructing horizontal networks in these groups uniting Russian-speaking immigrants in the Russian Federation, their role in migration planning and solving everyday household, legal and moral problems. The article uses the language of describing mobility by J. Urry: we consider “migrant” digital platforms to…
Russian-Speaking “Migrant YouTube” as a Focus of Urban and Social Studies
In the Russian-speaking YouTube segment, there is a large number of channels whose authors, coming to the Russian Federation from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, publish the scenes of their everyday life in the host country: searching for a job, furnishing an apartment, meeting migration services and police officers, relationships with other migrants. These videos and comments to them describe the migration experience of the a…
Trust vs. Disorientation
Интеллектуальная история и политическая экономия современного капитализмаОжиганова А
Reducing Legalization Expenses as a Topic in Russian-Speaking Migrant Online Communities
This article discusses the texts posted in migrant groups in social networks, on forums and YouTube-channels. It is hypothesized that legalization in a host country becomes a common and crucial topic for migrant groups: the potential trajectories of users’ moving to a city or a country, as well as the tactics of their integration into the host community, may depend on how legality is defined in a particular migrantgroup. Legalization is often def…
The Stage That Does Not Exist
The article deals with the representation practice of Irkutsk open clothes market in urban narratives. The concepts of social roles performed in the market space and markers, indicating its boundaries, are analysed in the article. Referred in the narratives nonspatial market borders, which are characterized by the changes in the role model and ideas about the permissible, are considered in the article. The purpose of the article is to show the ma…
Survival, Exotica and Emptiness
This article analyzes the transformation process of ideas about the functionality and the social content of the open clothing market of a large “post-Soviet” Siberian city in urban narratives by the example of Shanhajka, the Irkutsk open market. Based on material from 60 semi-structured interviews, described are the functions that are assigned to the market depending on the period in question, the idea of its typical groups and their role in the …
Give me some cognac and I’ll help you’
Social Media as a Mechanism for Developing and Reproducing Migration Strategies (Using the Example of Digital Platform Profiles of Russian-Speaking Migrants in Korea)
This article analyzes texts written by users of Russian-language digital communication platforms on the topic of emigration to the Republic of Korea. The purpose of the study was to determine what meanings are attributed to the Republic in these texts, and how these images can affect the migration strategies of Russian-speaking migrants. The texts were sourced from relevant communities inside the largest social networks by the number of Russian-s…
Monument” versus “dilapidation”
The article analyzes the practices of the discursive marking of “places of memory” and their role in the construction of urban spaces of Siberian regional capitals. The author describes the areas of high-rise residential development formed in the 19th-20th centuries, defined in Russian urban narratives as the “private sector”. The latter is considered as a “nodal point” in the urban semiotic system. It is shown that some communities consider the …
Trust vs. Disorientation
Интеллектуальная история и политическая экономия современного капитализмаОжиганова А
Survival, Exotica and Emptiness
This article analyzes the transformation process of ideas about the functionality and the social content of the open clothing market of a large “post-Soviet” Siberian city in urban narratives by the example of Shanhajka, the Irkutsk open market. Based on material from 60 semi-structured interviews, described are the functions that are assigned to the market depending on the period in question, the idea of its typical groups and their role in the …
Give me some cognac and I’ll help you’
Give me some cognac and I’ll help you’
The Stage That Does Not Exist
The article deals with the representation practice of Irkutsk open clothes market in urban narratives. The concepts of social roles performed in the market space and markers, indicating its boundaries, are analysed in the article. Referred in the narratives nonspatial market borders, which are characterized by the changes in the role model and ideas about the permissible, are considered in the article. The purpose of the article is to show the ma…
Survival, Exotica and Emptiness
This article analyzes the transformation process of ideas about the functionality and the social content of the open clothing market of a large “post-Soviet” Siberian city in urban narratives by the example of Shanhajka, the Irkutsk open market. Based on material from 60 semi-structured interviews, described are the functions that are assigned to the market depending on the period in question, the idea of its typical groups and their role in the …
Trust vs. Disorientation
Интеллектуальная история и политическая экономия современного капитализмаОжиганова А
Reducing Legalization Expenses as a Topic in Russian-Speaking Migrant Online Communities
This article discusses the texts posted in migrant groups in social networks, on forums and YouTube-channels. It is hypothesized that legalization in a host country becomes a common and crucial topic for migrant groups: the potential trajectories of users’ moving to a city or a country, as well as the tactics of their integration into the host community, may depend on how legality is defined in a particular migrantgroup. Legalization is often def…
“You Are No Longer Here”
ВАС ЗДЕСЬ БОЛЬШЕ НЕ ЖИВЕТ»: ВНУТРЕННЯЯ КОЛОНИЗАЦИЯ И ГОРОДСКИЕ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ РЕЖИМЫ ИРКУТСКА И
Construction of Horizontal Networks on “Migrant” Russian-Language Digital Platforms
The article discusses the Russian-language “migrant” groups in the social networking service “Vkontakte.” The author analyses mechanisms of constructing horizontal networks in these groups uniting Russian-speaking immigrants in the Russian Federation, their role in migration planning and solving everyday household, legal and moral problems. The article uses the language of describing mobility by J. Urry: we consider “migrant” digital platforms to…
Russian-Speaking “Migrant YouTube” as a Focus of Urban and Social Studies
In the Russian-speaking YouTube segment, there is a large number of channels whose authors, coming to the Russian Federation from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, publish the scenes of their everyday life in the host country: searching for a job, furnishing an apartment, meeting migration services and police officers, relationships with other migrants. These videos and comments to them describe the migration experience of the a…
Dreams about an Overcome Boundary
The article analyzes the images of the Irkutsk city center in the memories of the representatives of two marginal groups — street children and venders, who lived and worked there from 1999 to 2006, as well as its mo dern images in the public statements of the urban elites. The aim of the study is to identify the functions that the city center performed during the years of deep social transformations and to reveal why today one wants to forget abo…
Migrants and Spatial Marginality in Urban Digital Media (The Case of Irkutsk)
The article analyzes “migrant” spaces created in Irkutsk by journalists and users of urban digital media. We considered professional news agencies, groups in Vkontakte, and forums as a tool for “space production” in combining many autobiographical descriptions of interaction with the city, images, and publicistic texts into an integral socio-spatial image. We were interested in how the texts’ authors of digital media integrate migrants into the “…
“They Seem to Exist, but Mostly Virtually so Far”
“They Seem to Exist, but Mostly Virtually so Far”
Monument” versus “dilapidation”
The article analyzes the practices of the discursive marking of “places of memory” and their role in the construction of urban spaces of Siberian regional capitals. The author describes the areas of high-rise residential development formed in the 19th-20th centuries, defined in Russian urban narratives as the “private sector”. The latter is considered as a “nodal point” in the urban semiotic system. It is shown that some communities consider the …
Search Engines as Mechanism for Constructing Boundaries of “Imagined Communities” (Case of Internal Migrant Image in Siberian Regional Digital Media)
The article analyzes the process of constructing boundaries of imagined communities by search engines, using the case of the image of internal migrants arriving in Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk. Combining quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors analyzed the image of internal migrants created by the texts that make up the first pages of search results of Google, Yandex, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Mail.ru. They found that in most te…
“They Seem to Exist, but Mostly Virtually so Far”
The article examines the representations of the "diaspora” in texts published on "migrant” digital communication platforms. With the help of discourse analysis The messages posted in open access in thematic groups in VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Telegram channels were studied. The purpose of the study was to find out what meanings and functions the users of these sites give the word "diasporas”. The "Diaspora” was considered as a nodal point, un…
Nationalism, Purity, and Danger
The article explores narratives of the “cross-border intimacy” in Russian-language digital media. The text arrays generated by migrants, representatives of the host community, and professional journalists in digital media are analyzed. We identified and compared the meanings that are given to marriages between migrants and “locals”. Texts were selected from 10 of the most quoted Russian Internet media, city public sites of the largest Russian soc…
Social Media as a Mechanism for Developing and Reproducing Migration Strategies (Using the Example of Digital Platform Profiles of Russian-Speaking Migrants in Korea)
This article analyzes texts written by users of Russian-language digital communication platforms on the topic of emigration to the Republic of Korea. The purpose of the study was to determine what meanings are attributed to the Republic in these texts, and how these images can affect the migration strategies of Russian-speaking migrants. The texts were sourced from relevant communities inside the largest social networks by the number of Russian-s…
Problematization of Migration in the “Texts of Power” As a Discursive Basis of Regional Migration Policy (on the Example of Krasnoyarsk)
The article presents the results of an analysis of perceptions of migrants in press releases and regulatory documents of law enforcement and civil government agencies. We considered these texts within the framework of a "soft" constructionist approach, as a tool for problematizing the social process and one of the key ways of producing the discourse of power. The purpose of the study was to use a combination of quantitative content analysis and d…
Foreigner, Control and Symbolic Exchange
The article contemplates the process of developing a language by Irkutsk officials to describe migration in the early 1990s. Drawing on the archive they collected, which includes internal documents of the city administration, migration service and police, the authors trace how local self-government bodies and lower structures of federal departments perceived migrants and relations with them. They focus on the social characteristics of migrants th…
Experience of Analyzing Textual Representations of the Structural Integration of Migrants in Russia on Social Media Using the Bert Neural Network
The article explores the “digital traces” of the structural integration of cross-border migrants in Russia by combining qualitative text analysis methods with automatic classifiers. Our goal was to analyze posts related to job and housing searches in migrant communities on VKontakte in order to describe the challenges these individuals face and how they use social media to overcome them. From the wide range of practices falling under the definiti…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia (12 works) · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works)