Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes by Rustamjon Urinboyev continues the recent series of monographs (see Kubal, 2019; Schenk, 2018) that introduce the Russian case of immigration policy and governance to global migration studies. The book focuses on visa-free labor migration from Uzbekistan to Russia and analyses migrants’ legal adaptation in the context of Russia's hybrid political regime. The main argument of the book is based on the crucial opposition between “Western-style liberal democracies in which culture of the rule of law is strong and presumed to be the standard of governance”, including for immigrant integration and adaptation frameworks, and hybrid political regime contexts such as Russia where “migrants do not experience the “rule-of-law” and functional institutions but must navigate around the corrupt legal system and produce new forms of informal governance and legal orders” (p. 6). The author scrutinizes the agency that migrants arriving in Russia from Central Asia exercise when they try to manage “a discrepancy between formal (legal) decisions and informal (illegal) practices” (p. 138) and to balance “parallel legal orders” (p. 67).

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书评：移民和混合政治制度：在俄罗斯的法律环境中导航Rustamjon Urinboyev

移民与混合政治制度作者 Rustamjon Urinboyev 继续最近的一系列专着（见 Kubal，2019 年；Schenk，2018 年），将俄罗斯的移民政策和治理案例引入全球移民研究。该书重点关注从乌兹别克斯坦到俄罗斯的免签证劳务移民，并分析了移民在俄罗斯混合政治体制背景下的法律适应。这本书的主要论点是基于“法治文化强大并被假定为治理标准的西方自由民主国家”之间的关键对立，包括移民融合和适应框架，在俄罗斯等混合政治体制背景下，“移民没有体验到‘法治’和职能机构，但必须绕过腐败的法律体系，并产生新形式的非正式治理和法律秩序”（第 6 页）。作者仔细审查了从中亚抵达俄罗斯的移民在试图管理“正式（法律）决定与非正式（非法）做法之间的差异”（第 138 页）和平衡“平行法律命令”（第. 67).