Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has
become one of the most important destinations for immigration in the
world. It is also a very particular case of a destination country in
which two types of flows have shaped the character of immigration.
Massive waves of Russians returning to their ancestral (or actual)
motherland from other republics dominated throughout the 1990s,
diminishing in 2000s.
At the same time, the growing Russian economy
started to attract immigrant workers from other parts of the post-Soviet
space, especially from less developed central Asian countries, namely
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Nowadays, they are
the main working migrant group, whose presence is contested on cultural
grounds. The Eurasian migration system is thus a central theme for
migration research in the region. This report proposes a deep
comparative analysis of the place of Russia and Kazakhstan (Russia's
emerging economic rival) in the Eurasian migration system. The analysis
is accompanied by an analysis of data collection in Russia and the
development of Russia's migration policy.
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/migration-report/?utm_source=MPC%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=ce4c384319-MPC_CARIM_East_Regional_Migration_Report_5_5_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5739ea1f8b-ce4c384319-73568189#russia_centralasia
