International Labour Migration to Russia: Trends and Regulation
https://doi.org/10.17994/IT.2019.17.4.59.5
Abstract
Russia has become one of the largest host country for migrant workers in today’s world. Labor migrants from Central Asian countries, Ukraine, and Moldova account for the main influx of labor from outside to the Russian labor market, providing principal labor resources for some regions and sectors of the economy. The article considers a complex hierarchical (three-level) system of access for labor migrants to the Russian labor market, which is complicated by many bureaucratic procedures. However, in fact, the state controls only ten percent of the foreign workforce. In addition, there is no unified system of statistical registration of labor migrants. The labor migration management system in Russia does not fit into the conceptual demographic and migration documents and rather registers the flows of labor migrants than actually manages them. This article gives an overview of the key problems that labor migrants face in the Russian labor market in terms of work, registration, living conditions, and organization. The article offers a number of recommendations for adjusting the migration policy in the field of labor migration regulation, the key of which are the development of interstate agreements, improving national instruments for regulating labor migration, stimulating the adaptation and integration of migrants, and enhancing relevant statistical tools.
Keywords
international migration,
Russia,
labor migrants,
labor market,
national regulation,
Eurasian Economic Union,
depopulation
Supporting agencies: The study was conducted with the support of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Support of Leading Scientific Schools (grant No. NSh-3781.2018.6).
About the Authors
Sergey Riazantsev
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Prof. Sergey Riazantsev - Director, Institute for Social and Political Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair, Department for Demographic and Migration Policy, MGIMO University
Moscow, 117218
Elena Pismennaya
Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Prof. Elena Pismennaya - Professor, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation; Chief Research Fellow, Federal Center of Theoretical
and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, 125993
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Riazantsev S., Pismennaya E. International Labour Migration to Russia: Trends and Regulation. International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy. 2019;17(4):65-83. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17994/IT.2019.17.4.59.5
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