Russia Needs a New Migration Policy

Abstract

Sergei riazantSev Russia Needs a New Migration Policyrussia's migration policy fails to respond to the needs of the time and neglects international experience. the state should work to reduce emigration, encourage educational and business migration, make the quota system for foreign workers more transparent, and improve data collection on migration.

Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: Analyzing international migration of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996–2020

“…Despite its research contributions, Russia has remained a relatively under-studied case in the science of science and the high-skilled migration literature. Most studies on these topics have been limited to providing qualitative explanations for the emigration of specialists, which often do not go beyond suggesting the necessity of facilitating circular migration in Russia (Iontsev et al 2017;Kolesnikova et al 2014;Molodikova and Yudina 2016;Naumova 1998;Ryazantsev 2013;Taylor et al 1996;Ushkalov and Malakha 2001;Volz 2002;Yurevich et al 2019). Therefore, a deeper analysis is needed that quantitatively examines the international movements of researchers in Russia, and their implications for different fields of science.…”

Características do mercado de trabalho russo, 2008-2018

“…As long as non-qualified workforce dominates in the migrant flow, social and cultural adaptation will remain a big problem, while the situation with medical services and dwelling for migrants stays the same. Jobs are few and far between for low-skilled or unskilled labour migrants; this adds tension to the social and economic situation in the host countries (Ryazantsev, 2013). The problem can be resolved by teaching the Russian language to potential and actual migrants in their countries; the infrastructure of Russian-language courses should be improved, while access to it should be made significantly easier and free of charge.…”

“…Today, there is a so-called migration-based economy in Russia that brazenly exploits labour migrants who have no documents, hence no rights and who can, therefore, be shamelessly taken advantage of, underpaid, kept in appalling conditions and often treated with cruelty. All those who use migrant labour should be bound by law to build or rent temporal dwellings for them, which should comply with at least minimal habitation requirements project (Ryazantsev, 2013). Trade unions and labour inspections should regularly check the conditions in which migrants work and to which they return after working hours, assess accident prevention systems at industrial enterprises, etc.…”

Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data

“…Despite these features, Russia has been a relatively under-studied case in the scientometrics literature. Most studies on this topic are limited to qualitative explanations on the emigration of specialists which often do not go beyond suggesting the necessity of facilitating circular migration for Russia [38,15,24,17,31,37,36,27,34]. Therefore, a deeper analysis is needed to quantitatively study the international movements of researchers in Russia and its implications for different fields of science.…”