Search: Migration (122 materials)

 

Global Economic Crisis and Migration

The impact of recession that followed the 2008-2009 financial crisis on the immigration policies of Western countries It is reasonable to suggest that the recession is likely to result tougher immigration policies. This is basically correct, although reality is somewhat more complicated. First, there is no causal link between ...

29.12.2014

RIAC Launches Joint Research with Kyrgyz Partners

On December 17, 2014, Bishkek was the venue of a working meeting for staffers and experts of RIAC and Kyrgyz National Institute for Strategic Studies on a future joint migration project. Russia is hosting about 500,000 Kyrgyz immigrants with Russian citizenship and about the same number of Kyrgyz citizens, with quite a lot of migration issues on the agenda, among them the impact of Bishkek's presence in the Customs ...

22.12.2014

Refugees in Russia: Myths and Reality

... and academics, in the 1990s. Interest subsided in the early 2000s, but the issue is definitely gaining ground with the flow of refugees on the rise. For many centuries, Russia was a country with tight borders that exercised strict state control over migration, first of all that coming from the outside of the country. At the same time, people, mostly ethnic Russians, were constantly migrating from centrally located regions to the periphery. This process intensified during the Soviet period to the ...

09.09.2014

Latin American Human Resources: Stagnation or Development

... no coincidence the continent is flooded with investments, particularly from China. Labor issues are rightfully in the limelight, among them the portrait of the average Latin American worker, labor conditions, and economic sectors, youth issues, and migration flows. Latin America has, so far, experienced two powerful socio-demographic trends in the 21st century that are relevant to the labor environment. The first is the so-called demographic bonus phenomenon, meaning a minimal population ageing ...

03.06.2014

Prospects for Ukrainian Migration to Russia in the Context of Ukraine Crisis

Over the two decades of the post-Soviet period, Ukraine has been the key migration partner for Russia, with almost two million individuals having emigrated to Russia since 1992, according to Russia's Federal Statistics Agency. In 2012, more than 50,000 more arrived, which makes Ukraine Russia's second largest supplier of immigrants ...

22.04.2014

The Ukrainian Crisis and Migration

The current crisis in Ukraine is expected to cause only a slight, short-term rise in “stress” immigration into Russia. However, in the longer term, the level of immigration from Ukraine to Russia is expected to fall, mostly due to Russia’s tarnished image, particularly as perceived in Western Ukraine, and a broader range of legitimate opportunities ...

17.04.2014

Migrant Integration: The European Experience and Prospects for Russia

Working Paper #12 / 2014 This working paper was prepared as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s project International Migration Processes: Trends, Challenges and Prospects. Whereas Europe has dealt with mass influxes of immigrants since the 1950s, Russia only encountered this phenomenon relatively recently. Europe’s experience with migrant integration, which will be ...

21.03.2014

Russia and Mexico Facing Migration Challenges

Model in Transformation: New Elements Emerge Global migration processes can be divided into roughly two main models, the Mexico-U.S.A. system in the Western hemisphere and the Russia-CIS system in Eurasia. Although Russia is predominantly a recipient of migrants and Mexico is a donor, there are enough ...

18.03.2014

Indigenous Peoples: Development for Preservation

... preserving a language for the sake of it, while many Northerners retain their identity while also adopting the Russian language, which offers them more opportunities. This issue has yet to be resolved, the solution could well lie in bilingualism. Is the migration of the younger generations of Northern peoples to the cities really a problem? How do they change their self-perception once outside their home environment? And do they make their way in the new surroundings? Photo: yakutskhistory.net Deer ...

04.02.2014
 

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