Migration Activity of Population and Migrant Workers in Modern Russia
https://doi.org/10.15356/0373-2444-2015-3-41-56
Abstract
Different migration flows – resettlement to the permanent residence and seasonal labor migrations both of Russian population and foreign workers – are analyzed. Higher level of correlation between the intensity of labour migration of Russian population and their resettlement to the permanent residence, their orientation to the central regions of Russia and the largest cities, as well as the divergence with migrate paths of foreign workers are identified. The analysis of regional labor migration was founded on different statistical sources and at the same time used indirect methods of study of socioeconomic state and migration attractiveness of cities of different size in Russian macroregions from 1991 to 2011. The results of sociological studies of key rural areas also are used. In modern institutional conditions seasonal works as a kind of temporary labor migration with week, month, and more long periods are considered as one of the main way of ensuring the necessary living level outside large agglomerations. This process not only has social consequences for the population, but also enhances the polarization of the Russian space, blocks the development of peripheral areas, small and medium towns. The article is accompanied with maps, charts and tables.
About the Author
T. G. Nefedova
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Nefedova T.G. Migration Activity of Population and Migrant Workers in Modern Russia. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2015;(3):41-56. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15356/0373-2444-2015-3-41-56
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