title: Exclusive Citizenship-Membership? Meanings of Finnish-Russian Bonds and Belonging
abstract: Besides defining the juridical relationship between individuals and a state, citizenship holds informal importance of belonging and empowerment in social environment. Perceptions of a “good citizen” reflect normative social and political construction of a society, which is often simultaneously influenced by human rights, migration, security, geopolitics, and nation-building. Initiatives to renegotiate the previously liberal Finnish citizenship became topical in the country’s public discussions a
journal: Laboratorium Russian Review of Social Research