Internal Russian migrants from Chechnya in places of new settlement: some peculiarities of self-identification

The author considers the massive and intensive movement of the Chechens from the territory of their historical residence, which has been mainly influenced in the last twenty years by the following stress factors: political instability, economic regress, military operations in the form of struggle between federal center and separatists and carrying out the counterterrorism operations, etc. The author analyzes materials of sociological interview with the Chechen people, who live in inhabited localities of Astrakhan Region, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories at the present time on a permanent basis, and reveals gender peculiarities of Chechen migrants’ perception of the receiving environment and their interaction with local population.