MIGRATION AND ETHNIC CONFLICT

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04a785a3.jpg"> <div> <B>                                                  MIGRATION AND ETHNIC CONFLICT</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>RESEARCH PROJECTS DIRECTED BY PROF. MIKHAIL ALEXSEEV (SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY)</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="04bd2b03.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <div> <U>Special Acknowledgments</U></div> <div> The web pages containing these materials have been designed and assembled by Steven Zech, Department of Political Science, University of Washington and Larissa Dorman, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University with partial support from the National Science Foundation research grant, "Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in the Russian Federation" (SES-0452557) <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime "><B>Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime (NSF)</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sources of AntiMigrant Hostility (MacArt"><B>Sources of Anti-Migrant Hostility (MacArthur Foundation)</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="InterMinority Xenophobia (NCEEER)"><B>Inter-Minority Xenophobia (NCEEER)</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime "><B><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in the Russian Federation: Risk Profiles 2000-2010 (</U></B></A><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime "><B><U>National Science Foundation, SES-0452557</U></B></A><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime "><B><U>)</U></B></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(with C. Richard Hofstetter, San Diego State University)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Using aggregate statistics, event data, mass surveys, focus groups, and structured interviews, this project models and tests the combined effects of migration and demographic trends on ethnoreligious violence and militant interethnic hostility in the Russian Federation in the early 2000s.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">'</U></B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sources of AntiMigrant Hostility (MacArt"><B><U>The Number Game:' Sources of Public Support for Anti-Migrant Hostility in the Russian Federation (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Program on Global Security and Sustainability)</U></B></A> (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >with Sergey Golunov, Volgograd State University)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Explores how and why perceptions of migration scale and trends become predominant in the public opinion within host societies.  The project uses mass survey data in strategically selected Russian provinces to tease out these perceptions and their impacts on migration policy preferences.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Migration and Inter</U></B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="InterMinority Xenophobia (NCEEER)"><B><U>-Minority Xenophobia in the Russian Federation (National Council for Eurasian and East European Research)</U></B></A></div> <bR> <div> Examines how differentiation among minorities--titular vs. non-titular, regional majority vs. minority, native vs. migrant, Muslim vs. non-Muslim--affect inter-minority relations and immigration views, using survey data from four provinces in Russia's Southern Federal District (North Caucasus and lower Volga). </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>