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Russia, China, and the Immigration
Security Dilemma
MIKHAIL A. ALEXSEEV
C. RICHARD HOFSTETTER
The yellow peril is rising.... We see the overpopulation of the neighboring nation.
They will come here, give birth to multitudes of slit-eyed people and then claim
political autonomy.... Even if we shoot and kill a million Chinese a year, this
problem won't go away.
-Vitalii Poluyanov, Chieftain, the Ussuri Cossack Army, interview with the
first author, Vladivostok, June 1, 1999
Since the opening of the Sino-Soviet border in 1988, governors
of Siberian and Russian Far Eastern territories, Russian federal government
officials, and the media have been warning the Kremlin and the Russian public
about peaceful Chinese infiltration and Sinification of the Russian Far
East (RFE).1 In national polls conducted by the Levada Analytical Center,
Russia's leading survey agency, the number of respondents who wanted to
restrict the settlement of ethnic Chinese in Russia rose from 39 percent to
'Typical headlines read, The Chinese in the Far East: Guests or Masters?, Will Vladivostok
Become a Suburb of Kharbin?, and The Chinese Are Unarmed, But Very Dangerous. See Viktor
Larin, Kitai I Dal'nii Vostok Rossii v pervoi polovine 90-kh: problemy regional'nogo vzaimodeystviia
[China and the Russian Far East in the First Half of the 1990s: Problems of Regional Interaction]
(Vladivostok: Dal'nauka, 1998), 72. For recent reactions, see Mikhail A. Alexseev, Socioeconomic
and Security Implications of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East, Post-Soviet Geography and
Economics 42 (March 2001): 95-114; Dmitrii Chernov, Kitatiskaia bolezn' Dal'nego Vostoka.
Diaspora zhivet po svoim zakonam [The Chinese Disease of the Russian Far East. The Diaspora Lives
According to Its Own Laws], Vremia novostei, 19 February 2003, accessed on the website of EastView
at http://dlib.eastview.com, 30 May 2003.
MIKHAIL A. ALEXSEEV is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at San
Diego State University and director of a research project on ethnoreligious hostility and violence
in Russia funded by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. His latest
book is Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States.
C. RICHARD HOFSTETTER is a professor in the Department of Political Science and adjunct
professor in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University.
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