Kniga yavlyaetsya prodolzheniem izdannykh Lambert Academic Publishing v 2011 i 2012 gg. monografiy avtora Rossiyskaya emigratsiya v otechestvennykh dissertatsionnykh issledovaniyakh 1980-2005 gg.: bibliometricheskiy analiz i Rossiyskoe zarubezh'e: istochniki istoricheskikh issledovaniy, ikh evolyutsiya, rasskazyvayushchikh o tendentsiyakh razvitiya otechestvennoy nauki v chasti osmysleniya eyu problem istorii rossiyskogo rasseyaniya, vklyuchaya rezul'taty issledovaniy, evolyutsiyu ikh tematiki, istochnikovoy bazy i metodologii. V dannoy (tret'ey) monografii tsikla vyyavlyayutsya nauchnye shkoly rossiyskikh istorikov-emigrantovedov. Predprinyat istoriograficheskiy analiz tekstov dissertatsiy i ikh avtoreferatov, a takzhe pechatnykh trudov po istorii rossiyskoy emigratsii i rossiyskogo zarubezh'ya. Podrobno kharakterizuyutsya: istoriya emigratsii raznykh voln; izuchenie regionov rossiyskogo rasseyaniya; voprosy emigratsii otdel'nykh etnicheskikh i etnososlovnykh grupp; osmyslenie adaptatsii rossiyskikh emigrantov i fenomena rossiyskogo pravoslavnogo zarubezh'ya; izuchenie obrazovaniya, izdatel'skogo i muzeynogo dela rossiyskikh emigrantov; istoriopisanie zhizni i tvorchestva vidnykh deyateley emigratsii. Prednaznachaetsya issledovatelyam problem "zarubezhnoy Rossii".