The number of long-term migrants to Russia has not been growing since 2014, while the rate of their departures keeps increasing. The migration growth – the lowest in the post-Soviet period – fails to make up for the natural decline in the population

According to the split year data, in 2015 positive migration balance in Russia will be below 2013-2014 indicators. Herewith, mobility of the Russian population does not remain at a low level: the scale of internal migration captured by statistics will exceed four million persons. It will be...

The share of persons with higher education in immigration flows and the temporary migration to the Russian Federation is currently lower than that in the emigration flow from Russia. However, in quantitative terms the annual number of intellectual emigrants is small. Migration of persons with...

In the report processes of labor migration in Russia and their influence on all-Russian and regional labor markets are considered. The main attention is paid to two types of labor migration – internal (the citizens of Russia working in the regions other than their permanent residence), and...

This article was written based upon data from the first research on the market of domestic workers-migrants, performed by the Migration Research Center with the support of UN Women in 2013 in Russia and Kazakhstan. The article explains who domestic workers are and how they look for work; their...

The article is written based on the project of the Center for Migration Research, carried out in 2013 with the support of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Moscow project “Protecting the Rights of Muscovites in Mass Migration.” Data from the quantitative survey (conducted in...

The RF authorities banned entrance to the country for all foreigners and stateless persons from March 18, 2020 till May 1, 2020. Nearly simultaneously the authorities of main contributing countries of immigrant workforce to Russia commenced closing their borders. That means that the vast...

In the context of negative economic development, it is reasonable to expect a reduction in labor migration into Russia. At the same time, there exist some concerns about a possible increase in competition in the labor market between native and foreign workers, and it has been suggested that the...

Results of the research of the Center of migration study used in Russia and Kazakhstan in 2013 with assistance of the UN-Woman. Domestics workers-migrants in labor markets of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg) and Kazakhstan (Astaon, Almaty) in the context of the advance of Convention of the...