Abstract
The article deals with foreign labor migration flows control as well as migration monitoring which are important for the Russian Federation regions’economy development. A new migration monitoring toolkit is proposed by the authors - Multicultural Barometer. It allows to quantify migration indicators in a region from 4 various angles: labor market; national identity; migrants’ adaptation; migrants’integration. The research data is coming from open sources (Kareliastat, Federal Migration Service of the Republic of Karelia, Ministry of Labor and Employment of the Republic of Karelia, data obtained from Centers for Interethnic Cooperation in Karelian municipalities); both migrants’ pilot survey and host community survey organized in 18 municipalities of the Republic of Karelia. The study conducted in Karelia seems to be important in a context of its geographical location (on a border with Finland) highlighting both successful practices and developing new tools for migration monitoring aimed at scientifically based solutions for migration control. Multicultural barometer as a tool was recommended by the Federal Agency on Ethnic Issues of Russia (FADN) and Strategic Initiatives Agency in 2017 as best regional practice for further implementation all over the Russian Federation.
Highlights
Difficulties in national goals achieving as well asstrategic tasks solving on in a current political cycle of the Russian Federation (2018-2024) are mainlyconditioned on by demographic problems: birth rate decrease [1], natural population decline and number of working-age populationreduction
In 2015 Multicultural barometer as a tool for migration policy monitoring was developed in the framework of the project "Concept of interethnic consent development at the Republic of Karelia: a joint platform for NGOs and authorities" (2014-2015)
Centers on interethnic cooperation were created in all municipalities of the Republic of Karelia
Summary
Difficulties in national goals achieving as well asstrategic tasks solving on in a current political cycle of the Russian Federation (2018-2024) are mainlyconditioned on by demographic problems: birth rate decrease (by 10.7% in 2017) [1], natural population decline and number of working-age populationreduction. According to the Center for Strategic Research working-age population by 2030 would decrease from 11 million to 13 million people. In these conditions foreign labor migration is considered as one of progressive resources for the Russian economy development. Putin in his decree "Ensuring interethnic harmony" [2] called the Government for effective mechanisms aimed at interethnic conflicts resolving and system monitoring of interethnic relations
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