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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1Limits of transnationalism

London: a super-diverse city

Russian-speaking migrants in London

Transnationalism: introducing a popular concept in migration studies

Who is a transmigrant?

Critique of transnationalism

Conclusions

Chapter 2Ethnicity and social relationships

Ethnicity and migration

Social relationships amongst migrants

The nature of friendship

(post) Soviet friendship

Conclusions

Chapter 3Localising friends

‘It just happens’

Looking for Russian-speakers

Expanding networks

Transnational friendships?

Conclusions

Chapter 4 Choosing friends

Degrees of closeness

Constructing distances among Russian-speakers in the bar

Divisions within the community

Affective distancing

Conclusions

Chapter 5Rethinking friends

Becoming cosmopolitan

Everyday diversity

Dynamics of change

Social contexts of cosmopolitanisation

‘Us’ and ‘Them’: questioning the dichotomy

Ambiguous images of ‘otherness’

Conclusions

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Data on research participants

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