I am currently a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, and I recently completed my dissertation research in Moscow, Russia. My dissertation, titled, "Migrants and Muscovites: The Boundaries of Belonging in Moscow, 1971-2002," explores temporary labor migration to Moscow. I seek to understand how and why migrants mov d to Moscow, their reception from Muscovites and different levels of Soviet power, and the continuities and discontinuities between the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. More broadly, I draw comparisons between these migration patterns and global labor migration trends.