This article investigates the role of ethnicity in determining migration patterns, by using a newly constructed late- and post-Soviet dataset. The members of various indigenous ethnic groups, who had been spread across the Soviet territories, had to decide whether or not to leave the land in which they suddenly became diaspora after the dissolution of the USSR. The post-Soviet case reveals that ethnicity played a crucial and independent role in migration decision and destination choice, as potential migrants were likely to move to the regions where their co-ethnics are prevalent and/or likely to stay if they are already in such regions. This trend of ‘ethnic unmixing’ is observed in a novel dataset regarding the regional migration patterns of major ethnic groups in the post-Soviet space. Econometric analyses using this dataset also confirm that ethnic composition of a region, along with wages and employment, has significant effects on the regional migration patterns. This article also shows that the post-Soviet migration trend was a complete reverse of pre-collapse migration which had been in the direction of ethnic mixing.

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回家之路：民族在后苏联地区移民中的作用

本文通过使用新构建的苏联后期和后期数据集，研究种族在确定迁移模式中的作用。分散在苏联领土上的各个土著民族的成员不得不决定是否离开苏联解体后突然散居的土地。后苏联时代的案例表明，种族在移民决策和目的地选择中发挥着至关重要的独立作用，因为潜在的移民很可能会迁移到他们的同族裔普遍存在和/或如果他们已经在这样的地区可能会留下来的地区地区。这种“种族分离”的趋势在一个关于后苏联空间主要民族的区域迁移模式的新数据集中观察到。使用该数据集进行的计量经济分析还证实，一个地区的种族构成以及工资和就业对地区迁移模式有显着影响。本文还表明，后苏联的移民趋势与崩溃前的移民趋势完全相反，后者一直朝着种族混合的方向发展。