About
Jeff Bilik is broadly interested in comparative historical sociology, with a focus on international migration, law, and culture. His current research looks at how internal migrants in the last decades of the Soviet Union experienced citizenship and welfare. It asks why migrant workers to major cities, though Soviet citizens, were denied access to the same social rights (in housing, employment, pensions, and healthcare) as long-term urban residents. His focus is on the role of social policy in the formal and everyday production of inequality among citizens in modern states.
