Islam and Politics in Russia: Transformation of Muslim Spaces in Moscow
Rano Turaeva-Hoehne (LMU)
- Beginning:
- Thursday, 10 December 2026 14:15
Abstract:
The book is based on ethnographic journey into the lives of Central Asian migrants whose labour sustains Russian cities while their faith, mobility and belonging remain closely scrutinised. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, the book reveals how migrants navigate informal economies, police surveillance, racialised exclusion and everyday precarity, while Islam offers ethical orientation, community and survival strategies. It challenges simplistic views of migration, religion and integration by showing how state power, labour markets and moral worlds intersect in daily life. Essential reading for scholars, students and policy audiences interested in migration, Islam, Russia and post-Soviet societies today globally.
Rano Turaeva-Hoehne:
She is a habilitated lecturer at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich in Germany. She finalised her second single authored monograph on Migration and Islam in Russia (Brill 2026) and her first book was published with Routledge (2016) with the title `Migration and Identity: the Uzbek Experience`. She edited two books, one with Rustamjon Urinboyev titled: “ Labour, Mobility and Informal practices in Russia: Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space” published in 2021 by Routledge. The second book with Michael Brose on Halal markets in secular context with Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. She also edited two special issues one published with Extreme Anthropology Journal on Anthropology of Debt relations and another one together with Michael Brose on Halal economies with the journal Sociology of Islam. She has been writing on the topics of debt relations, informal economies, informality and urban transformations in post-Soviet cities, migration, entrepreneurship, gender, border studies, identity and inter-ethnic relations among many other topics which she published in such journals as Extreme Anthropology, Cities, Nationalities Papers, Inner Asia, Asian Ethnicity, Communist and post-Communist studies, Sociology of Islam, Central Asian Affairs, Central Asian Survey, Anthropology of Middle East among other journals.
Cooperation:
Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World
Venue:
GS OSESUR, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, Room 017 (ground floor)