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Illegal Migration Crisis in the South-Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan Region

The Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) has repeatedly warned that illegal migration has shaped itself into a national security threat for the South-Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan region. The widespread internal destabilization of Arab countries (Egypt, Libya, Iraq and recently in Syria) has created the conditions for the ...

19.09.2013

A World With no Borders or Visas: Utopian or Inevitable?

... what we need is a level of trust impossible in the absence of strategic rapprochement, in this case between Russia and the EU. However, there seems to be no alternative in the long term, since both sides are facing the same challenges, a key one being migration from the global South. Many regions adjacent to the EU and Russian borders are in havoc. The expanding chaos south of the EU cannot but push the European leaders to strengthen ties with Russia. Moscow, in its turn, is interested in closer contacts ...

19.09.2013

The Scale of Labor Migration to Russia

Today we are unaware of the total number of labor migrants already staying and working in Russia Late in the 20th and early in the 21st century, the inflow of labor migration became visibly dominant among other migration flows, and its scale has substantially increased over the last decade [1] (See Figure 1 ). The number of labor migrants officially employed in Russia (as shown in the chart) is far from the total ...

13.09.2013

Historical and Current Trends in Emigration From Russia

Emigration from Russia will continue the range of emigration-related issues that require extensive and thorough studies is impressive enough. But many of these problems can only be studied with foreign data or using the results of surveys conducted abroad....

05.09.2013

Central Asia in One Hundred Years: Following the Great Transformation

... once across the entire region or even in one of its countries: it will continue for a longer period in agrarian districts, while in industrial areas with larger urban populations, this demographic transition will be completed faster. “Great Transmigration of People” The 21st century in Central Asia was marked by migration comparable in magnitude only with the migration flows in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Back then, first came peasants resettling from the central regions ...

14.08.2013

Historical and Current Trends in Emigration From Russia

At present, it is obvious that emigration from Russia will continue The study of immigration in Russia, in contrast to the process of emigration from the country, has a relatively short history [1] . This is primarily due to the, often negative, attitudes towards immigrants and poor ...

14.08.2013

Supporting Compatriots Abroad: Failures and Accomplishments

... discrimination. What the resettlement policy needs now is acceleration, as it may soon lose momentum due to social transformation in the near abroad. The official statistics insist that in 1991-2001 Russia received 7.2 million foreigners, while the immigration growth climbed to over 3.4 million. More than 50 percent of immigrants arrived in 1991-1995, with a ssessments indicating that in those days Russian and Russian-speaking compatriots constituted from one-third to half of the migration flow. Russia ...

09.08.2013

Illegal Migration in Russia

The development of information technologies would facilitate the upgrading of measures to counteract illegal migration to a qualitatively new level Illegal migration is one of the most serious challenges the world currently faces, and counteracting it has become a key priority for migration authorities. Illegal migrants are themselves harmed by existing in ...

06.08.2013

Transnational Migration as an Issue of Political Theory

Russia is an immigration country I. At first glance, transnational migration appears unparalleled in scale. Whereas in 2000 there were 120 million people around the world residing outside countries of their birth, in 2003 the figure rose to 150 million, in 2005 – ...

19.07.2013

RIAC and UN Foundation Talk on Russian Demography and Migration Policy

On July 15, Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, hosted consultations on Russian demography and migration policy between the Russian International Affairs Council and a delegation of the United Nations Foundation Board of Directors, with RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov UN Foundation President Kathy Calvin leading the discussion. The Russian ...

16.07.2013
 

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