Educational infrastructure created in conditions of social exclusion

‘Kyrgyz clubs’ for migrant children in Moscow

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11449863
AutoresE Demintseva (0000-0001-6402-5010, National Research University Higher School of Economics, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas220-235
Fecha de publicación2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCentral Asian Survey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-4937 • E-ISSN: 1465-3354
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02634937.2019.1697643
OpenAlexW2996587465
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas30

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