Domestic and international migration in the Russian Far East in the mid-19th-early 21st century

Abstract

The paper gives a retrospective analysis of the settling of the Russian Far East, periodization of the development of this macroregion from the perspective of changes in the migration processes is proposed. The formation factors and the dynamics of migration processes within three periods are given. The features and reasons for the unsatisfactory development settling of the Far East by settlers from the European part of Russia, on the one hand, and the features of employment of Chinese and Korean farmers in the Russian territory, on the other hand, during the first period are shown. The dynamics of forced and voluntary migration and the reasons for the decrease in the foreign labor force attraction in the region in the second period are considered. The formation of opposite migration flows (Russian domestic and international) during the third period is shown.