The data published by the RF Federal Migration Service (FMS) – although these by no means should be seen as absolute truth because of the widespread practice of illegal employment of foreign workers - may, nevertheless, be taken as a kind of baseline information. These data testify to the fact...

Transformations which took place in the Russian legislati on on migration in H1 2014 concerned not only the issues of citizenship (which issues were discussed in the previous issue), but the temporary labor migration, as well

The possibility of active and effective usage of domestic labor reserves used to be offered for discussion following a reduction in and slower growth of working-age population in Russia and growth in external labor migration from CIS member countries to Russia throughout the entire 2000x. The...

The migration processes in Russia over the spring and summer of 2014 were being shaped by the deteriorating situation in foreign politics (the events in Ukraine) and by the looming threat of stagnation and recession faced by the Russian economy. As the latest data on migration processes in...

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...