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Chinese Migration in the Maritime Territory: Economic, Political, and Security Implications for the Russian Far East |
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entrance to a Chinatown, Russian Far East-style, on the outskirts of the city
of Ussuriisk in Primorskii krai.
Economic opportunities and security concerns clash at this Chinese-Russian border crossing. This new customs building at Grodekovo checkpoint symbolizes post-Soviet Russia's openness to China and willingness to trade. The three-tiered fence that surrounds the building reflects persistent fears of Chinese territorial claims. The fence in the middle is made of barbed wire and electrified. A small yellow sign reads: "Warning: high-voltage enclosure." China lies beyond. | The
demise of the Soviet Union and the improvement of relations between Moscow and
Beijing in the late 1980s lifted political, economic and cultural isolation of
the Russian Far East from China. While creating economic incentives for cooperation,
the cross-border flow of people, goods, and services has given rise to security
concerns and socioeconomic grievances among political elites and the public in
the Russian Far East. In Primorskii krai (Maritime Territory)—located at the juncture
of Russia, China, and Korea—these concerns are accompanied by lack of reliable
data and systematic analysis of the scale and socioeconomic consequences of Chinese
migration, suggesting that informed public debate on these issues is unlikely
and policy miscalculations are probable. This web site provides data on Chinese migration in the Maritime Territory and the analysis of economic, political and security implications of cross-border exchanges between Russia and China. This site emerged as part of the project on cross-border migration and interethnic security in the Russian Far East that was made possible by a grant of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (Title VIII). The project received additional financial support from the Appalachian State University, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars, and the National Bureau of Asian Research (as part of the program on security implications of political and economic developments in the Russian Far East funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York). This site also incorporates the Primorskii 2000 opinion survey and Primorskii 1993-2000 event data assembled as part of the project on developing methods for preventive monitoring of interethnic hostility. This research was made possible by major grants of The United States Institute of Peace and the Pacific Basin Research Center based at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and sponsored by the Soka University of America. Partial support was provided by the San Diego State University and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Principal
investigator: Research
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PREVENTIVE MONITORING OF INTERETHNIC HOSTILITY AND NATIONALIST ACTIVISM: THE CASE OF PRIMORSKII KRAI
Opinion Survey: "Perceptions of Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai: Economic Benefits, Demographic Pressure, and Nationalist Activism." Conducted in Primorskii krai, September 2000, N=1010. Stratified random sampling proportionate to estimated population size. Deposited at the Library Archive at the Vladivostok Institute of History, Ethnography and Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690000, Pushkinskaia Street, 89. Reference numbers are, as transliterated from Russian: Fond 1, opis'2, delo 435.
Primorskii 2000 survey codebook
Primorskii 2000 survey questionnaire with answer codes
Mikhail A. Alexseev, "Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East:"
Indices of key variables
Methodological Appendix
An event-data system, "Chinese Migration and Nationalist Activism in
the Russian Far East, 1993-2000." The event-data system contains 3,253
event summaries based on Russian and Primorskii krai press documenting Russian-Chinese
interactions in Primorskii krai, as well as domestic Russian interactions concerning
Russia-China relations, Chinese migration, and the demarcation of the Russia-China
border. Events are compiled and coded according to the guidelines of the Global
Events Data System (GEDS).
PKGEDS1993.xls
PKGEDS1994.xls
PKGEDS1995.xls
PKGEDS1996.xls
PKGEDS1997.xls
PKGEDS1998.xls
PKGEDS1999.xls
PKGEDS2000.xls
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Data and Research on Chinese Migration and the Russian Far East:
Charts:
Political and Administrative Map of Primorskii Krai (1988)
Useful Links:
Demography & Population Studies: The Internet Guide to Demography and Population Studies
Far East State University Library
National Bureau of Asian Research
Program on New Approaches to Russian Security at Harvard University
Russian Far East WWW Virtual Library
Vladivostok (daily newspaper in Russian)
Zolotoy Rog (weekly in Russian and summary in English)
ASU student papers on the Russian Far East:
Energy Crisis in the Russian Far East Danny Donovan
Post-Soviet Transition and Russia's "Secret Cities" Trey Whittenton
Last updated: March
15, 2002
