TRUST OF IMMIGRANTS FROM CIS COUNTRIES TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. PART II

Abstract

The article is the second part of the work devoted to the problem of institutional trust of immigrants in Russia. Research hypothesis: immigrants are more likely to distrust Russian political institutions. They were socialized in post-Soviet states with a low level of institutional trust. Immigrating to Russia, they find themselves in an environment with developed institutional skepticism and face xenophobia and discrimination. The first part of the hypothesis is valid only for Armenia and Kyrgyzstan; Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are distinguished by a high level of trust, however, in the conditions of strict personalistic autocracy it is difficult to assess its real level.
As for the trust of immigrants in Russian political institutions, according to the limited sociological research available in Russia, the structure of trust of immigrants is undoubtedly dominated by social institutions and the political institutions with which immigrants communicate are in last place, sharing it with organizations that protect the rights of migrants. This is due not only to the effectless work of these institutions and the low level of institutional trust in Russian society, but also to structural discrimination and migrant phobia.