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Bachelor Thesis

Chinese immigration into the Russian Far East: comparison of perceptions among Russian civic and ethnic nationalisms

by

Mark Saamov Spring 2014

First Name : Mark

Last Name : Saamov

Matriculation No.: 20330652

e-mail-address: m.saamov@jacobs-university.de

Major: International Politics and History

Supervisor: Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier

Course Instructor: Prof. Matthijs Bogaards

Course: Bachelor Thesis Seminar (course 990301)

Word count: 6912

Submission Date: 30.04.2014

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1. With my signature, I certify that this thesis has been written by me using only the indicated resources and materials. Where I have presented data and results, the data and results are complete, genuine, and have been obtained by me unless otherwise acknowledged; where my results derive from computer programs, these computer programs have been written by me unless otherwise acknowledged. I further confirm that this thesis has not been submitted, either in part or as a whole, for any other academic degree at this or another institution.

2. I permit the lodging of a copy of this thesis in the IRC, which shall be

made available for the academic use of staff and students.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my deepest gratitude towards Pr. Bogaards and Pr. Sachsenmaier for their support and proficient advising on such matters as choosing the main theoretical framework, helping to manage the content, providing relevant suggestions for literature search and giving critical feedbacks of the earlier drafts

I would also like to thank Pr. Verweij and Pr. Schreier for their additional counselling and assistance in improving the theoretical framework as well as for providing extremely valuable secondary academic sources, which greatly helped to make the analysis of this BA thesis deeper and more comprehensive.

Finally, I would like to thank my peer reviewer Kai Iizuka for his criticism, regarding the structure and organization of the earlier drafts of the BA thesis – by implementing his suggestions, I hope that the structure and logic of the final BA thesis are of highest quality.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Improvement of Bilateral Sino-Russian relations

1.2. The Problem: Russian Anxiety About Chinese Immigration

2. Main Body

2.1. History of Sino-Russian Relations

2.2. Overview of the Socio-Economic Situation in the Far East

2.3. Character and Numbers of Chinese Immigration - thre 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

2.4. Russian Civic Nationalism

2.5. Russian Ethnic Nationalism

2.6. Antagonism Between the Government and Right-Wing Nationalists

2.7. Discourse of Two Nationalisms on Chinese Immigration

2.7.1. Ethnic Nationalism Discourse

2.7.2. Civic Nationalism Discourse