Abstract This special issue explores the cultural production of US immigrants—writers, poets, and artists—from the former USSR and its successor states Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Their fiction, poetry, memoirs, and music reflect experiences shaped by migration and Soviet and Russian imperialism, while engaging with the intersecting dynamics of racialization, gender, class, and disability. Contributing to the decolonial turn in Slavic, (post-)Soviet, and East European studies, the essays trace how this work negotiates belonging, resists assimilation, and reimagines diasporic identity. They reposition (post-)Soviet migration within global frameworks of mobility, precarity, and cultural resistance, while situating (post-)Soviet and Ukrainian cultural production within US migration literature.
Sadowski‐Smith et al. (Sun,) studied this question.