Authoritarian regime stabilization through legitimation, popular co-optation, and exclusion: Russian<i>pasportizatsiya</i>strategies in Crimea
Journal: Globalizations
Year: 2017

In the spring of 2014, Russian authorities distributed, rapidly and on mass, Russian passports to their newly and controversially acquired citizens within Crimea. This passport distribution strategy, or pasportizatsiya, can be seen as a continuation of the Soviet practice which was conducted to spatially control a population. In focusing on the most contemporary instance of this practice, this paper asks: how and why did pasportizatsiya take place in Crimea? The research involved a processed-foc