@inbook{10.7591/j.ctt1287dtp.15, ISBN = {9780801453335}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1287dtp.15}, abstract = {This chapter does not fit the typology of migration that has framed our study, nor did the denizens of this chapter fit snugly into the categories employed by respective Russian states to make their populations legible.¹ It is about people who did not seek to be part of a sedentary society, but who rather sought to remain on the margins, or whose lifeways were rooted in migrations. The first group consisted of escapees, tramps, beggars, and orphans fending for themselves, whose ambition it was to fall through the cracks or to begin a new life under a new identity. The}, bookauthor = {Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch}, booktitle = {Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia’s Twentieth Century}, edition = {1}, pages = {334--386}, publisher = {Cornell University Press}, title = {Itinerants}, year = {2014} }