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Rustamjon Urinboyev

Associate professor

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Muslim prisoners in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author

  • Rustam Urinboyev

Summary, in English

In a new blog post on prisons during the pandemic, Dr. Rustamjon Urinboyev turns to the experiences of Muslim prisoners in contemporary Russia. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork among migrants from Uzbekistan who have served prison sentences in the Russian Federation, he analyses the everyday practices of these transnational prisoners and their prison communities, and explains how these practices have changed since the onset of coronavirus-related lockdowns.

Department/s

  • Department of Sociology of Law

Publishing year

2020-06-17

Language

English

Document type

Web publication

Publisher

Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Topic

  • Law and Society

Keywords

  • Prisons
  • COVID 19
  • Russia
  • Muslim
  • penal law

Status

Published

Project

  • Migration and Legal Cultures in Post-Soviet Societies: Ethnographic Study of Uzbek Migrant Workers and Their Families