Explores the racialization of immigrants from postSoviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora. Mapping representations of post1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews reality TV shows fiction and memoirs Claudia SadowskiSmith shows how this nationally and ethnically diverse group is associated with idealized accounts of the assimilation and upward mobility of early twentiethcentury arrivals from Europe. As it traces the contributions of historical Eastern European migration to the emergence of a white racial identity that continues to provide privileges to many postSoviet migrants the book places the postUSSR diaspora into larger discussions about the racialization of contemporary US immigrants under neoliberal conditions.