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28 Int'l J. on Minority & Group Rts. 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/ijmgr28 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON MINORITY AND GROUP BRILL RIGHTS 28 (2020) 1-35 N IJ H O F F brill.com/ijgr Constructing Ethnic Diversity as a Security Threat: What it Means to Russia's Minorities Federica Prina University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom federica.prina@glasgow.ac.uk Abstract This article analyses the Russian government's securitisation of inter-ethnic relations, and national minorities' responses to such processes. While Russia's securitising dy- namics have been linked to threats associated with ethnic groups (perceived as) cul- turally distant from the Russian majority (such as non-Slavic and Muslim minorities), this article argues that securitisation can affect all of Russia's national minorities (in- cluding Slavic and well-integrated communities). Through the analysis of the securiti- sation of three, partly converging, spheres of domestic politics (civil society, migration, and minority issues) the article highlights forms of (in)security impacting upon na- tional minorities with reference to their experience of securitisation and format of their civic engagement. The article contributes to research exploring the relationship be- tween security and minority studies, through a bottom-up perspective focusing on na- tional minorities' experience of securitisation. It employs empirical data based on semi-structured interviews with minority representatives held in 2015-2016 in six loca- tions in the Russian Federation. Keywords securitisation - Russian Federation - civil society - migration - anti-extremism i Introduction This article analyses the Russian government's securitisation of inter-ethnic relations, and how national minorities experience - and respond to - such processes. Post-Soviet Russia has built a narrative around the image of a © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/15718115-bja10002

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