The purpose of the study is to analyze ethnic diasporas of modern Russia in the context of the theory of cultural trauma. The article examines diasporas created by communities whose statehood is located outside Russia and was formed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. These countries belong to societies of cultural trauma, at least due to the circumstances of their origin and subsequent destructive events (wars, religious and interethnic conflicts, etc.). It has been estab lished that modern ethnic diasporas generated by immigrants from such countries have a powerful cultural traumatic potential. It is shown that the reproduction of cultural traumas generated by the past life experi ence of migrants and their production in the host country belongs to the most important latent functions of ethnonational diasporas in modern Russia. The phenomenon of “binary cultural trauma” is revealed, which reflects the combination of the consequences of the previous traumatic experience sustained by an ethnic migrant in his historical homeland and traumatic situations in the host country.
ethnic diasporas; cross-border migrants; trauma socie ty; binary cultural trauma; social archaization; social personality type “avoidant person”; social archaization.