Russia is promoting initiatives to attract skilled migrants and foreign workers to settle in Siberia and the Far East
Russia understands it has a current demographic crisis, especially in regions in Siberia and the Far East. It has set up the State Migration Policy Concept 2019-2025, which is designed to attract foreigners and migrants to re-populate these areas with low populations.
Irina Ivakhnyuk:
Discrepancy Between Enforcement and Policy: Reforms Needed with Russian Labor Migration?
Russia will actively support skilled workers to live in these areas of low population and encourage permanent residence if workers build closer ties to Russia. Russia specifically wants to negotiate with India on its State Migration Policy ...
... migrants struggle with in Russia as well as the legislation and its effect on the situation.
How successfully is the labour migration policy implemented in Russia? Are there any gaps between official migration policy and the real practice of regulating migration? If so, what are the weaknesses of the current system?
Irina Ivakhnyuk:
Discrepancy Between Enforcement and Policy: Reforms Needed with Russian Labor Migration?
Things are moving in the right direction, but rather slowly. The authorities were able to streamline the work with CIS labour migrants through the introduction of patent system. The situation with selling quotas used to be plainly speculative....
... migration policy and the real practice of regulating migration? If so, what are the weaknesses, how serious consequences can they have for the migration situation in the country as well as for the migrants themselves?
IV International Conference “Migration and International Law”
Labor migration policies are carried out inconsistently, impulsively, contrary to the economic interests of Russia and not in compliance with the provisions of the 2012 Concept of Migration Policy.
I draw on evidence not only from my experience working ...
