MIGRATION FROM TAJIKISTAN TO THE SOUTH URALS: ON THE ISSUE OF INTEGRATION AND IDENTITY OF MIGRANTS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
The article is devoted to the identity of migrants from Tajikistan in one of the regions of the Ural Federal District. The source base was made up of materials from a series of express and in-depth interviews collected in the summer of 2022 in Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk. A total of 35 interviews were collected. Based on them, the features of the relationship between civil and ethnic identities are shown, the main ties and practices that connect migrants with Russian society are identified, and the difficulties that arise in the process of integration are shown. Despite a number of cognitive limitations, the study shows that migrants, especially the second generation, are quite well integrated and perceive themselves as part of a civil community or “Russian nation”.