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«Местные» и «приезжие» на Ямале: социальные границы и вариативность миграционного опыта
Western Siberia and the entire circumpolar region have become an obvious migrant
destination for newcomers from the European part of the country, the national republics, and
Southern Siberia. Unlike the rest of Siberia, the oil- and gas-rich North is still a migration
magnet for the whole of the former Soviet Union. The paper is dedicated to research into the
contemporary social environment of the village Yar-Sale in Yamal. The research is focused
on the migration experience of the recent newcomers and their relations with the aboriginal
inhabitants. Special attention is paid to such notions as ‘local’/ ‘newly arrived’, ‘kin’/
‘stranger’. I assume that these boundaries are flexible. A newcomer could become a local, and
outsiders could become kin. Ethnic background and duration of stay in the region are not
always crucial for this transition.