Immigration and Russian Migration Policy

Debating the Future

Author(s): Vladimir Mukomel
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 7
Pages: 2-5
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

While war refugees and returnees dominated immigration to Russia during the 1990s, in recent years, most immigrants are laborers who want to benefit from the Russian economic upturn. These immigrants face extremely poor working conditions and they are socially ostracized by the vast majority of the Russian population. At the same time, immigration could prove to be the solution to the country's demographic problems, countering the decline of its working population. So far, Russian migration policy has not formulated a convincing response to this dilemma.

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