The Adaptation of Immigrants in Russia

Abstract

The Language Aspect the author discusses the general immigration situation in russia and surveys efforts to teach russian to immigrants and their children.

Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes

“…The rise of antimigrant attitudes also associates with the absence of formal migrant integration policies in Russia (Brednikova and Tkach 2010;Gorenburg 2014;Malakhov 2015). There is no educational infrastructure enabling migrants to acquire the skills necessary to adapt nor any state agency charged with the question of integrating and adapting migrants (Streltsova 2014). The Main Directorate for Migration Affairs (formerly FMS), part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, primarily serves as a law-enforcement structure and is mainly concerned not with ensuring the rational regulation of labor migration but with issuing documents and taking punitive measures in relation to migrants who fail to obtain a patent.…”

“…This young migrant labor force sought primarily to earn as much money as possible in the short-term and then return home. Hence, the majority of Uzbek migrants did not seek to secure permanent residence nor to integrate into Russian society (see also Streltsova 2014). Even those migrants who received a permanent residence permit in Russia viewed their situation as "temporary" and maintained daily contact with their family and mahalla (local community) through smartphones and social media (Abashin 2014).…”

“…Every large-scale state-funded program-including infrastructure and construction projects such as the Moscow International Business Center (also known as Moskva-City), the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, or the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi-depends heavily on the migrant labor force. Large Russian cities, such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Tyumen, and Yekaterinburg, serve as the primary magnets for migrants (Streltsova 2014). The vast majority of migrant workers come to Russia from three Central Asian countries-Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan (Malakhov 2014).…”

La lengua al servicio de la adaptación sociocultural y económica de los migrantes en la época de las transformaciones globales

“…En la bibliografía científica dedicada a la adaptación de los migrantes en una sociedad de lengua extranjera, en su mayoría se examinan los casos relacionados con la asimilación de los propiamente inmigrantes, es decir, de las personas que llegaron al país para residir permanentemente -sobre esto escriben tanto los investigadores rusos (Golunov, 2014;Gorenburg, 2014;Streltsova, 2014) como los extranjeros (Edwards, 2008;Jacobson, 1999;Kwok-bun, 2013;Mouw, 1999;Nesdale, 2000]. Pero la particularidad de los migrantes en Rusia consiste en la concientización de la temporalidad de su estancia en la Federación Rusa y, por eso, en la ausencia del deseo de asimilarse en la sociedad rusa.…”

Adaptive Behavior As A Mechanism Of Personal Self-Development

“…This competence supports the development of self-regulation and self-development of the student's personality. The academics researching intercultural communication in the field of psychology and pedagogy confirm the need to study the issues of multiculturalism, multicultural adaptation, hybridized identity, the creation of a model of the third culture and self-development of the individual (Chen, 2015;Qadeer, 2016;Sokolsky, 2016;Korneev, 2014;Streltsova, 2014;GlickSchiller, 2015;Rodrigo-Alsina&Medina-Bravo, 2016).…”