Resettlement of migrants in a city near Moscow Kotelniki[Расселение Мигрантов В Подмосковном Городе Котельники]

This paper presents the results of a case-study of the Moscow satellite city called Kotelniki. This city is depicted in the mass media as the Moscow Harlem, which implies that the city has turned into an ethno-migrant enclave. The goal of the study is to check this image by description of the residential patterns of migrants and non-migrants in the city. The results of the study include three main blocks: (1) presentation of the urban history of Kotelniki including a typology of housing development, (2) description of the typology of the city dwellers and its connection with the typology of the housing, (3) ethnographic description of one of the locations with high concentration of migrants in the city. The results show that if the buildings constructed in the Soviet time are rarely populated by migrants, the recently constructed buildings have attracted high concentrations of migrants. Even though in these latter areas one can observe decrease of the share of Russians and increase of the share of migrants, the main factor is not anti-immigration sentiment per se but unsatisfactory conditions of the infrastructure, poor ecological characteristics, overcrowding in the kindergartens and schools. Non-migrants connect these factors with both incompetent politics of the authorities and large-scale immigration.