Post-Soviet Diasporas in Newfoundland

This is a collaborative project. I implement Elaine Lawless’s “reciprocal ethnography” approach as a more democratic way of representing voices in an ethnographic study. Consultants who are quoted extensively were invited to provide feedback on my interpretations, and their reflections constitute part of the discussion.

Bio: Mariya Lesiv is an Associate Professor of Folklore at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador. This talk is based on her recent ethnographic project “Host-Region: Post-Socialists Diasporas in Newfoundland” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.