This IMR Country Report examines Nigerian migration to Russia, exploring the changes in this migration stream from a flow driven by educational motivations during the Soviet era to one shaped by economic and family-reunion reasons after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. In doing so, it offers insights into the social realities of Nigerian migrants living in Russia. The research discussed here included interviews with 25 Nigerian migrants living in Moscow and focused on their challenges and strategies in obtaining housing. As it shows, apartment owners in Moscow exhibited ethnic and racial biases against Nigerian migrants, who also faced rental contract constraints, due to incomplete migratory documentation. This IMR Country Report highlights a contradiction between Russian government policies and apartment owners’ preferences and willingness to accommodate and apply for registration on behalf of Nigerian migrants. It adds to understandings of the conditions faced by sub-Sahara African migrants regarding access to housing in an understudied destination and to barriers to social integration that sub-Saharan African migrants encounter in Russia.

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IMR 国家报告——尼日利亚移民到俄罗斯：后苏联社会中的住宿和歧视

这份 IMR 国别报告考察了尼日利亚向俄罗斯的移民，探讨了这一移民流的变化，从苏联时代受教育动机驱动的流向苏联解体后由经济和家庭团​​聚原因形成的流。通过这样做，它提供了对居住在俄罗斯的尼日利亚移民的社会现实的见解。这里讨论的研究包括对居住在莫斯科的 25 名尼日利亚移民的采访，重点关注他们在获得住房方面的挑战和策略。正如它所显示的那样，莫斯科的公寓业主对尼日利亚移民表现出种族和种族偏见，由于移民文件不完整，他们也面临租赁合同的限制。这份 IMR 国家报告强调了俄罗斯政府政策与公寓业主的偏好以及代表尼日利亚移民容纳和申请登记的意愿之间的矛盾。它增加了对撒哈拉以南非洲移民在获得研究不足的目的地所面临的条件以及撒哈拉以南非洲移民在俄罗斯遇到的社会融合障碍的理解。