Shenekhen Buryats: on that and this side of the border

In the article the border phenomenon is considered, it has a direct impact on life of Shenekhen Buryats - the group which was created by means of a border situation that determined its key parameters, set the direction to its destiny. The border separated this group from maternal ethnos. As a result the structured community was formed - “Shenekhen Buryats”: with the clear internal organization, system of power, control, sanctions, with the minimum openness to the accepting society. Moving to the new territory of the other state in patrimonial groups, with cattle as a basis of economic activity led to automatic reproduction of sociality, transplantation to a new place the traditional social structure, system of power and other relations, mode of life, property and economic structure. In the general context of modernization processes it led to formation of new types of sociality and new mechanisms of intergroup relationship. In other words, the Shenekhen Buryats formed a new type of crossborder migrations. In the article the border is considered as the most complicated complex of relationship between people, groups of people, states, as a complex of institutions, contacts, conflicts, interests. According to the opinions of the respondents in Shenekhen, the border always was different, in different years it changed, representing itself a wall behind which they could escape, an insuperable barrier, something dangerous, where the Bolsheviks could come from and repress them, and today while crossing the border, they, being respectable citizens, sometimes feel themselves like violators.