title: Deportation regimes in the post-Soviet space
abstract: This chapter contributes to migration studies by focusing on legal issues and deportation regimes as well as the experiences shaped by the deportability and detainability of migrants in Russia, in keeping with the work of De Genova and Peutz (2010) and De Genova (2019). The questions we consider here are as follows: How is deportability legally produced and operationalised? What legal and illegal means are used to render migrants deportable? And, what does being deportable mean for the daily sur