MIGRATION PROCESSES IN MODERN RUSSIA: CURRENT POLICY AND MANAGEMENT REACTIONS
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2025-4-1678
Abstract
Aim. To study modern population migration as a complex set of life choices of individuals and groups and of implemented political and administrative decisions based on the characteristics of the political system, political regime, political rhetoric, public opinion, and the need to address strategic issues in national security, economics, demography, and regional development. This defines a broad field of research on migration, migration processes, migration policy, as well as public administration and regulation of migration processes.
Methodology. Population migration is considered as a factor influencing political processes (domestic and international), as a result of military or ethnopolitical conflicts, and as an object of public administration and an independent direction of public policy.
Results. Attractiveness of a migration to the Russian Federation and the political and administrative responses to such migration context are analyzed; these responses currently take the form of additional regulation and control measures over the migration sphere. The current practice of improving Russian migration legislation has demonstrated the active participation of civil society institutions in this process, including the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, which has become one of the leading platforms for the public presentation and subsequent discussion of several draft laws.
Research implications. In the context of the new strategic planning document in migration, specific proposals are presented for improving state policy on the voluntary resettlement of compatriots from abroad, sociocultural adaptation and integration, and external labor migration.
About the Authors
Vladimir Yu. Zorin
Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Россия
Россия
Dr. Sci. (Political Sciences), Prof., Chief Researcher at the Center for Scientific Cooperation with Public Organizations
Maya A. Astvatsaturova
Pyatigorsk State University
Dr. Sci. (Political Sciences), Prof., Head of the Scientific and Educational Center for Political and Ethno-Confessional Studies
Mikhail A. Burda
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Dr. Sci. (Political Sciences), Assoc. Prof., Department of Political Science and Political Management, RANEPA Institute of Social Sciences under the President of the Russian Federation, Head of the Migration Department at the Center for Research and Expert Support of Projects Contributing to the Achievement of National Development Goals named after P. A. Stolypin, RANEPA Higher School of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
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