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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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....
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...