The Evolution of Russian Migration Policy in the Post-Soviet Period

Heleniak, Timothy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24445-7_11

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“…Immigration policies are often difficult to implement (Castles, 2003), particularly in Russia, with its extensive land borders and active migration industry (Icdyugu and Karacay, ; Ivakhnyuk, ). Scholars debate whether many migration policies (in Russia and elsewhere) are even intended to be implemented (Heleniak ; Robarts ; Zolberg ). Nevertheless, changes in Russia's migration policy do have real‐world consequences, as evidenced by the increase in immigration following the liberalization of quotas in 2006 (see Figure ).…”

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Policy Streams and Immigration to Russia: Competing and Complementary Interests at the Federal and Local Levels

Hofmann

Carboni

Mitchneck

et al. 2015

International Migration

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This article uses Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework to explain forms of national-and region-level governance used in the Russian Federation to manage unprecedented levels of international immigration. First, we identify the ways that the Russian federal government has legislated and governed international migration from 1991 through 2010. We then compare the federal level to the case of the Krasnodar region, an ethnically diverse region in the North Caucasus. We find that that migration policy adoption in Russia at the federal level is relatively immune to economic trends or labour needs but more sensitive to foreign and domestic political objectives. At the regional level, local socio-political and economic concerns predominate and political objectives are secondary. Finally, we argue that migration policy changes or adopted policy at the regional level may be explained by an interaction effect between changes in political leadership, federal level policy adoption, and regional level context.

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Section: Conclusion: Explaining Immigration Policymaking In Russiamentioning

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Policy Streams and Immigration to Russia: Competing and Complementary Interests at the Federal and Local Levels

Hofmann

Carboni

Mitchneck

et al. 2015

International Migration

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“…While some communicable diseases received considerable attention in the research community, a range of issues, such as NCDs or maternal and child health among migrants have not been widely addressed, which is due to lack of both health care access and reporting systems. Although interdependent and interrelated, the legal and regulatory instruments for medical care for migrants and refugees in Russia are rather fragmented, and no integrated legal framework is currently being implemented for the standardized routine care of this population [7]. Furthermore, there have been no regional or national indicators or standards for refugee and migrant health.…”

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Health of refugees and migrants from former Soviet Union countries in the Russian Federation: a narrative review

Bakunina

Gil

Polushkin³

et al. 2020

Int J Equity Health

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This narrative review was conducted to synthesize and summarize available up-to-date evidence on current health status, including both non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases, of migrants and refugees from the former Soviet Union countries in the Russian Federation. Epidemiological and sociological studies with one or more determinants of the health, as well as relevant qualitative studies characterizing risk factors, well-being indicators, and lifestyles of migrants and refugees from the former Soviet Union countries in Russia published from 2004 to 2019 in Russian and English languages were included in the review. Despite significant limitations of the available research literature in the field, some patterns in migrants’ health in Russia and issues that need to be addressed were identified. In particular, the syndemic epidemics of communicable and non-communicable diseases, additively increasing negative health consequences, including cardiovascular diseases and chronic digestive system diseases, high rates of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, respiratory diseases and a growing percentage of new tuberculosis cases among migrants from the former Soviet Union countries are all of great concern. Possibly, the burden of these co-occurring morbidities is linked to commonly reported issues among this population group, such as poor nutrition and living conditions, high prevalence of unskilled manual labour, non-compliance with sanitary norms, lack of basic vaccinations, lack of basic knowledge about safe sexual practices and risky sexual behaviour, low healthcare seeking behaviour and limited access to health care. Importantly, these findings may urge the government to increase efforts and promote international collaboration in combating the threat of infectious diseases. Additionally, it was found that migrants had higher levels of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, and those who stayed in the receiving country 5 years or more had a higher level of somatic pathology than those whose stay was less than 5 years. In order to ensure an adequate health system response and fulfil the main Universal Health Coverage principle of “leaving no one behind”, a robust monitoring system of the health status of refugees and migrants and an integrated legal framework for the standardized and more inclusive routine care for this population in Russia is urgently needed.

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“…Immigration to Russia is an inevitable long-term trend, determined by objective prerequisites (Ivanov, 2011;Belyaev, 2017;Ryazantsev, Bogdanov & Khramova, 2017). With a foreign-born population approaching 9 %, Russia has the second-largest stock of migrants in the world after the USA (Heleniak, 2016). Over the past fifteen years, the presence in Russia of several million labour migrants from Central Asia has been a key determinant of the region's stability (Lang, 2017).…”

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Social Risks And Vulnerability Of Labor Migrants In The Russian Borderland

Maximova¹,

Omelchenko²,

Noyanzina³

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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International migration has a significant effect on demographics, economics and ethnocultural life of Russia. Throughout the last decade, its population has been augmented by about 2.5 million of officially documented international migrants and a significant number of illegal foreign workers, which main streams come from CIS countries and Central Asia. The State migration policy aimed to promote transparency in registration and adaptation of newcomers but they remain very susceptible to risks of discrimination, social exclusion and xenophobia. The sociological survey was conducted in 2017 in Asian borderland (the Altai territory) to investigate different aspects of international migration in Russia in conjunction with security and social integration. The methodology included interviews with population (n=932, aged from 18 to 70 years) and labour migrants (n=317, aged from 16 to 73 years). Despite high degree of consent that international migration meets the demand of economy in low-qualified labour force and that migrants deserve humane treatment, the results show that population's views about migration are often biased and politicized: over a third part of respondents think that migrants threaten national security, associate migration with growing insecurity, increase in disease and blurring of traditional Russian culture. Migrants, in contrast, are rarely opposed to "natives", they are satisfied with conditions of their life in Russia, 88% of them report that they had never faced hostility or aggression. Meanwhile, considering low level of trust towards social institutions and significant role of social networks in accessing social services, the authors conclude about latent character of migrants' vulnerability.

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The Evolution of Russian Migration Policy in the Post-Soviet Period

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Policy Streams and Immigration to Russia: Competing and Complementary Interests at the Federal and Local Levels

Policy Streams and Immigration to Russia: Competing and Complementary Interests at the Federal and Local Levels

Health of refugees and migrants from former Soviet Union countries in the Russian Federation: a narrative review

Social Risks And Vulnerability Of Labor Migrants In The Russian Borderland

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