The Right to Fear : Investigating Threat Responses during Russia’s "Partial Mobilization"

Questions studied: 1. What is the evidence of social logic between leavers and remainers? 2. What role does magical thinking play in the decision to remain or leave? 3. How are hegemonic discourses reproduced similarly or differently leavers and stayers? 4. What role does the possibility of borders closing or compulsory conscription/mobilization play in the decision to move abroad? 5. What is the articulated threat perception by leavers vs. remainers? 6. What is the demarcation of the threat? Was the threat extended beyond the individual’s perception of self-preservation? 7. What are the perceptions of the Russian military by the leavers vs. remainers