Adeline Braux – Relocation from Russia to Azerbaijan: adaptation experiences of young Russian-Azerbaijanis to their parents’ homeland – 5/4/2016
Dans le cadre des conférences AMiMoMardi 5 avril 2016 à l’IFEA à 17hAdeline Braux (IFEA, Bakou) Relocation from Russia to Azerbaijan: adaptation experiences of young Russian-Azerbaijanis to their parents’ homeland Around 800,000 Azerbaijanis live in the Russian Federation, among them a significant number of young second-generation people. The collapse of the USSR gave rise to these first ‘hyphenated Russian-Azerbaijanis’, who find themselves between two cultural spaces but are generally embedded in the Russian environment they have always lived in. This article focuses on the way these young people cope with relocation to Azerbaijan. Based on new material gathered during extensive fieldwork in different regions of the country, the conference will explore the issues of adaptation from a practical point of


