New article by REES Alumna Marija Norkūnaitė

‘If the situation becomes unbearable and every [Russian-speaking Estonian resident] leaves’, Lena grew increasingly agitated: ‘How do you expect to boost your economy? Where will you get the money if there are no more taxpayers?’

‘Based on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork in Sillamäe and Daugavpils in 2019, conducted as part of a larger project on state–society relations among Russian-speaking communities in the Baltic States, this article follows Russian-speaking residents’ efforts at joining the national Estonian or Latvian collectives primarily as fiscal subjects’. You can find the article by REES alumna Marija Norkūnaitė in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute here