The Problematic Aspects and Directions of Development of the Migration Services Market in Ukraine

Abstract

At the present stage of development of migration processes in Ukraine, the problem of improving the domestic migration services market has been actualized, turning it into a system of socio-economic relations to meet the needs of the population in services related to the possibility and improvement of conditions for migration movements, obtaining related services related to migration, minimizing risks (both for citizens and the State) related to migration processes. The research is aimed at identifying problematic aspects, as well as substantiating the directions and means of the State policy for the development of the migration services market in Ukraine. The object of research is the processes of improving the State policy of functioning and development of the migration services market in Ukraine, legalization of its subjects and improvement of institutional-economic opportunities in relation to the provision of high-quality migration services. In the process of research, general scientific and special methods were used: synthesis and system analysis, logical generalization, strategic management, and comparative analysis. The article identifies the current systemic problems in the functioning and development of the migration services market in Ukraine, in particular in terms of the predominance of unlicensed subjects – providers of migration services; low level of satisfaction of migrants with intermediary services; limited practices of bringing to justice shadow intermediaries in the migration services market; low level of socio-economic protection of migrant workers, etc. The authors define directions and means of improving the functioning of the migration services market of Ukraine in the areas of: legalization and licensing of activities; introduction of a monitoring system for the migration services market; conclusion of intergovernmental bilateral agreements to protect the rights of migrant Ukrainians; implementation of the Concept for regulating the development of the migration services market in Ukraine. Prospects for further scientific research in the analyzed sphere concern the substantiation of directions and means of implementation of positive foreign practices for the State-based regulation of the migration services market in Ukraine.