Labour Migration on the Post-Soviet Territory

Чудиновских, Ольга Сергеевна; Денисенко, М.Б.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7_4

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“…I followed the patent application process as migrants entered the migration center, received a computer-generated ticket at the administration desk for a place in line, sat with a PVS worker to fill out a patent application, and went to a PVS inspector to make sure their application and documents were correct. Because labor migration statistics in Russia are solely based on administrative data produced in migration centers, not on survey-based estimates (Chudinovskikh and Denisenko 2020), observing the human interactions that document migrants and tally them into state statistics is crucial for understanding how migration policy is put into practice and what even a highly bureaucratized system misses.…”

Section: A Microlevel Approach To Understanding State Data Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this regard, Russia is no different, as the federal definition of rules and data categories create the structural environment within which migrants and state officials operate. After defining federal prerogatives (Schenk 2018a), officials in Moscow devolve data collection to local state agencies and, then, aggregate data from these agencies to form national statistics (Chudinovskikh and Denisenko 2020). These data are projected to the public, used in internal government documents evaluating government agencies that work with migrants, and made available to international organizations for crossnational datasets on migration (Denisenko and Chernina 2017).…”

Section: Federal Prerogatives and The Use Of Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the new system has brought more revenue into state budgets (in terms of both taxes and payments for services in migration centers) and systematized the process of issuing documents through migration centers, overall access to migrant documents has not kept pace with the number of migrants working in the Russian labor market, as suggested by the gap between patent-eligible and patent-receiving migrants in Table 1. The migrant population in Russia has been resilient, despite exogenous shocks such as economic crises and policy changes, meaning there is a steady population of undocumented migrants who cannot access patent documents (Chudinovskikh and Denisenko 2020;Demintseva 2017;Urinboyev 2020).…”

Section: Federal Prerogatives and The Use Of Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Counting Migrants in Russia: The Human Dimension of Administrative Data Production

Schenk

2023

International Migration Review

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How do states count migrants? This article engages evidence from Russia to demonstrate how official labor migration data depend on human interactions between state actors and migrants in a Russian migration center as a cautionary tale for those that take official data at face value. Drawing on participant observation and analysis of conversations between migration center workers and migrants, I argue that the agency of migrants and local state actors is crucial for creating official migration data, even when such agency is constrained by federally defined rules and priorities. Though Russia has highly centralized bureaucratic structures and procedures, I demonstrate how local state actors exercise agency by toggling between gatekeeping practices that uphold federal priorities and customer-service-oriented practices that attract migrants to voluntarily engage in the process of being documented and counted. Migrant participation in the bureaucratic process is crucial to the migration center's success, and migrants utilize strategies that can maximize their success in obtaining work documents and becoming counted in official statistics, such as using the migration center's commercial services or bringing a friend to help navigate any uncertainties. Evidence from Russia suggests that social environments can both limit and constitute the production of state data. Scholars, policymakers, and the public miss these contingencies and the potential impact that social environments have on final official numbers when they take state-produced migration data at face value.

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Section: A Microlevel Approach To Understanding State Data Productionmentioning

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Section: Federal Prerogatives and The Use Of Datamentioning

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Section: Federal Prerogatives and The Use Of Datamentioning

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Counting Migrants in Russia: The Human Dimension of Administrative Data Production

Schenk

2023

International Migration Review

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“…1 Together with the opening of Russian borders in the post-Soviet era, there were changes in Russian migration policies to accommodate the country’s political dynamics after the USSR’s disintegration and to create measures that guaranteed the country’s hegemony vis-à-vis other former Soviet republics (Leal and Rodríguez 2016; Aggarwal and Govella 2012; Chawryło 2012; Doff 2011). Factors such as Russia’s quest to become economically competitive in the global environment and its shrinking working population have necessitated changes in Russia’s migration policies (Chudinovskikh and Denisenko 2017). Nonetheless, effective implementation of Russian policies to facilitate and promote the principle of recognition, tolerance, and acceptance of migrants within the social and economic arena has been lacking (Matveevskaya and Pogodin 2018).…”

Section: Historical Backgroundmentioning

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IMR Country Report – Nigerian Migration to Russia: Accommodation and Discrimination in a Post-Soviet Society

Oni

2022

International Migration Review

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This IMR Country Report examines Nigerian migration to Russia, exploring the changes in this migration stream from a flow driven by educational motivations during the Soviet era to one shaped by economic and family-reunion reasons after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. In doing so, it offers insights into the social realities of Nigerian migrants living in Russia. The research discussed here included interviews with 25 Nigerian migrants living in Moscow and focused on their challenges and strategies in obtaining housing. As it shows, apartment owners in Moscow exhibited ethnic and racial biases against Nigerian migrants, who also faced rental contract constraints, due to incomplete migratory documentation. This IMR Country Report highlights a contradiction between Russian government policies and apartment owners’ preferences and willingness to accommodate and apply for registration on behalf of Nigerian migrants. It adds to understandings of the conditions faced by sub-Sahara African migrants regarding access to housing in an understudied destination and to barriers to social integration that sub-Saharan African migrants encounter in Russia.

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“…Chinese rural workers who know only a couple of phrases in Russian and really do not need to know more will never fulfill these requirements. Thus, these sorts of laws force employers and their foreign employees to violate them involuntarily (Chudinovskikh and Denisenko 2017).…”

Section: Chinese Agribusiness Entrepreneurs and Workers In The Russia...mentioning

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Chinese Migrant Farmers in the Russian Far East: Impact on Rural Labor Markets

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Arefieva

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American J Econ Sociol

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The close proximity of China and Russia, the activities of Chinese farmers, and the reduction in Russian labor resources have created job opportunities for Chinese workers in the Russian Far East (RFE). Chinese workers fill a labor shortage in agriculture, but little research has been done on them. We developed an econometric model to test the effects of Chinese intermittent migration on labor markets in the RFE. We found the proximity of Chinese to Russian farms reduces wages for both Russian and Chinese workers and increases their part‐time employment on Russian farms. The greater availability of Chinese workers in the region results in lower number of family members working on Russian farms. Thus, the influx of Chinese workers may contribute to demographic shifts in the Russian population.

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Labour Migration on the Post-Soviet Territory

Cited by 11 publications

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Counting Migrants in Russia: The Human Dimension of Administrative Data Production

Counting Migrants in Russia: The Human Dimension of Administrative Data Production

IMR Country Report – Nigerian Migration to Russia: Accommodation and Discrimination in a Post-Soviet Society

Chinese Migrant Farmers in the Russian Far East: Impact on Rural Labor Markets

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