Associate Professor
Research Areas
- Corruption and Informality
- Socio-Legal Approaches to Migration
- Muslim Identities in Prison Contexts
- Islamic Public Administration
- Law and Society in Central Asia
- Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
Current Research
Rustam works at the intersection of sociology of law and ethnography, studying migration, corruption, governance and penal institutions in the context of Russia and Central Asia.
1) The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes: Migration and Legal Informality in Russia and Turkey. Palgrave (contract signed, forthcoming 2021)
The book proceeds from the observation that migrant’s experiences and relationship with the host country’s laws and institutions under non-Western, non-democratic regimes reflects a new pattern of migrant legal incorporation and adaptation, combining some repressive and some liberal elements, in which corrupt political system and weak rule-of-law empower migrants to navigate the structural constraints imposed by the repressive immigration legal regime, and dominant immigrant incorporation frameworks have reduced applicability. It aims to analyze examples of migrant’s legal adaptation strategies patterned on this design from a functional perspective, placing them in broad socio-legal and political context, and observing them, as far as possible, from the perspective of migrant workers experiencing the corrupt and weak-rule-of-law environment and whose interactions with government bodies and labor market actors are organized by them. However, rather than dismissing migrants’ informal and illegal strategies as instances of corruption and bad governance, the book aims to view and assess these performances as the actual migrant legal incorporation and adaptation patterns in non-Western, non-democratic migrant-receiving contexts. These processes are analyzed through the multi-sited ethnographic study of migrant illegality and legal adaptation strategies in Russia and Turkey, between January 2014 through September 2019. I focused on these two countries motivated by the fact that they represent (a) non-democratic regimes, (b) non-Western migration locales, as well as (c) the largest recipients of migrants worldwide that will allow for comparative understanding of migrant legal adaptation and incorporation in non-Western migration regimes.
2) Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Post-Soviet Context, Abingdon: Routledge (contract signed, forthcoming 2021)
A book project on the role of society’s informal norms and ‘non-monetary currencies’ in the emergence, explanation, persistence and ubiquitousness of corruption. It investigates corruption beyond the established paradigms, showing that that people engage in informal or illegal transactions not just to satisfy their economic needs but also to fulfil their family and kinship obligations, socialise and maintain membership in their community, avoid gossips and social sanctions and get more moral and affective support from those around them. The central argument of the book is that the measures and tools adopted to understand and combat corruption should go beyond a merely economistic view and (Western-centric) normative approaches and that, to convince people to act within the realms of state law, a structure replacing not only economic opportunity but also reducing the gap between state law and society’s informal norms and rules (the “living law”) should be put into place.
Second author on this book project: Associate Professor Måns Svensson
3) Central Asian Muslim Prisoners in Russian Penal Institutions
Drawing on extensive fieldwork among migrants from Uzbekistan who have served prison sentences in the Russian Federation, the project analyses the everyday practices of Central Asian Muslim prisoners in Russian penal institutions. The special emphasis is placed on Muslim prisoners’ religious practices, ethnic identities and their interaction with the traditional Russian prison sub-cultures. This project is part of the ERC-funded “Gulag Echoes” project led by Professor Judith Pallot, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
4) Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia
Over the last two decades, economic relations between the EU and the five post-Soviet Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) have evolved around two parallel and contradictory patterns. On the one hand, due to the efforts of the EU, economic relations and inter-dependence have increased and the presence of EU companies in the region has expanded significantly. On the other hand, inconsistent business ethics standards - and the peculiar way in which rule of law is interpreted and applied in the region, also called “the local way of doing business” have hindered and limited the role of foreign companies in the region. Building on recent political developments leading to the opening up of previously closed and inaccessible countries, CENTRAL ASIAN LAW is a research and training programme that aims to promote greater understanding and explanation of the interconnections between legal cultures, local business environments and governance in Central Asia. This will enable the CENTRAL ASIAN LAW team to: 1) produce new empirical knowledge on legal cultures and business ethics in the region; 2) engage with, and challenge, existing theoretical paradigms within socio-legal studies, law, economic and business sciences, Central Asian studies (post-Soviet studies, more generally) and governance scholarship; 3) provide strategic intelligence for business actors interested or already operating in the region; 4) inform international organizations and decision makers in the EU and Central Asia on possible ways to improve the business and investment climate, the rule of law and governance in the region
The project is funded by the European Commission H2020 MSCA - RISE Programme. Project budget: € 1.1 million
Selected Publications in English
Publications
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- Rustam Urinboyev
(2021) Palgrave International Political Economy Series
Book - Rustam Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2021) The Central Asian World
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev
(2021) Routledge BASEES series
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev
(2021) Zhit v dvuh mirah: Pereosmyslya Transnatsionalizm and Translokalizm (Жить в двух мирах Переосмысляя транснационализм и транслокальность) , p.442-442
Book chapter - Måns Svensson, Rustam Urinboyev
(2021) Law, Justice and Power series
Book - Rustam Urinboyev
(2020)
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(2020) Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie , p.442-442
Journal article - Sherzod Eraliev, Rustam Urinboyev
(2020) Current History, 119 p.258-263
Journal article - Rustam Urinboyev
(2019) Slavic Review, 78 p.529-533
Review - Rustam Urinboyev
(2019) , 19 p.1-31
Working paper - Rustam Urinboyev
(2018) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance , p.1-1
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev
(2018) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance
Book chapter - Abel Polese, Rustam Urinboyev, Tanel Kerikmae, Sarah Murru
(2018) Space and Culture
Journal article - Rustam Urinboyev
(2018) Kalabalik. Bulletin of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 4 p.10-10
Journal article - Rustam Urinboyev
(2018) Eurasia on the Move. Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Dynamic Migration Region , p.27-41
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev, Abel Polese, Måns Svensson, Laura L Adams, Tanel Kerikmae
(2018) Studies of Transition States and Societies, 10 p.50-64
Journal article - Rustam Urinboyev
(2018) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality: Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity, 2 p.69-72
Article in encyclopedia - Laura L Adams, Måns Svensson, Rustam Urinboyev
(2018) Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures , p.487-487
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
(2017) Political Corruption and Governance , p.187-210
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev
(2017) Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures , p.119-119
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev
(2017) Post-socialist Informalities Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-legalities from Bosnia to China
Book chapter - Rustam Urinboyev
(2017) Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 7 p.18-18
Journal article - Rustam Urinboyev
(2017) The Global Informality Project / Encyclopaedia of Informality
Article in encyclopedia - Kari Rönkkö, Rustam Urinboyev, Måns Svensson, Lupita Svensson, Hanna Carlsson
(2017)
Report - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2016) Festskrift till Karsten Åström , p.521-542
Book chapter - Rustamjon Urinboyev, Abel Polese
(2016) Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24 p.191-206
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev, Per Wickenberg, Ulf Leo
(2016) International Journal of Children's Rights, 24 p.499-521
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2016) Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series , p.70-93
Book chapter - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2016) Aleksanteri Insight - Expert Opinion Series, 4
Other - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2016)
Conference paper - Måns Svensson, Anders Wigerfelt, Rustamjon Urinboyev, Ulla Nilsson, Margareta Littorin, et al.
(2015) Arbetsliv i omvandling, 1
Book - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2015) Viesoji Politika Ir Administravimas, 14 p.177-199
Journal article - Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2015) Droit et Société, 91 p.623-638
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Conference paper: abstract - Abdillah Noh, Wolfgang Drechsler, Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2014) Halduskultuur - Administrative Culture, 15 p.120-122
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2014) Halduskultuur - Administrative Culture, 15 p.157-178
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
(2014) Eugen Ehrlich‘s Sociology of Law , p.207-235
Book chapter - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2014)
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(2013) Lund Studies in Sociology of Law, 40
Dissertation - Måns Svensson, Anders S Wigerfelt, Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2013) Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
(2013) Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 45 p.372-390
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2013) Academic Swiss Caucasus Net Programme , p.31-31
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(2013) The Past, Present and Future of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe , p.296-303
Book chapter - Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
(2013) Social and Legal Norms , p.267-284
Book chapter - Måns Svensson, Rustamjon Urinboyev, Anders Wigerfelt Svensson, Peter Lundqvist, Margareta Littorin, et al.
(2013) SSRN Working Papers series
Working paper - Rustamjon Urinboyev
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Conference paper: abstract - Måns Svensson, Rustamjon Urinboyev, Karsten Åström
(2012) European Journal of Social Security, 14 p.64-85
Journal article - Måns Svensson, Rustamjon Urinboyev, Ulla Nilsson, Margareta Littorin, Anders Wigerfelt-Svensson, et al.
(2012)
Report - Political stability through welfare reforms : a comparative study of Central Asia and Western EuropeRustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
(2012)
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(2011) NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, IV p.33-57
Journal article - Rustamjon Urinboyev
(2011) Norms between law and society: A collection of Essays from Doctorates from Different Academic Subjects and Different Parts of the World, Lund Studies in Sociology of Law 37 p.115-133
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Conference paper: abstract - (2020) Research Report in Sociology of Law
Book - (2020) Routledge BASEES series
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Background
Rustam Urinboyev is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of Law. Rustam received his PhD in sociology of law for a thesis entitled: “Living Law and Political Stability in Post-Soviet Central Asia” (2013). His thesis explored the interconnections between informal economy, community-based traditional governance institutions and political stability, and has been published as a monograph with Media-Tryck/Lund University (2013). Rustam has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, University of Helsinki, University of Copenhagen, Tallinn University of Technology and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Uzbekistan.