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Over the past two decades Alexia Bloch has sought to understand how people from the former Soviet Union negotiate the transformations of social life brought about by the end of socialism and the onset of neocapitalism, a topic she has explored in two monographs based on research in Russia (Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State, and Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East, both published with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 and 2004). Since the mid-2000s her work has increasingly traced how massive migration out of and into the region of the former Soviet Union has shaped aspirations and intimate ties between people, a subject at the crux of my multi-sited research among post-Soviet labor migrants moving between Istanbul, Moscow, and southern Moldova (Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic, being published with Cornell University Press). In her current research on non-citizens in Russia she has turned to questions animating contemporary scholarship on the conditions and experiences of mobility and immobility for the growing number of undocumented people in the world.