Increasing social anxiety in the context of globalization of migration processes as a problem of international relations

Irina Britvina,Polina Shumilova,T Kliestik

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20219207010

Abstract

Research background: Increasing inward and outward labor migration flows between Central Asian countries and Russia are very significant for both sides. Migration processes in the Central Asian region play an important role in stabilizing international relations, because their economic, political and social results are important for all the countries in the region. The Russian Federation is one of the countries which receives the most immigrants, along with the United States, Germany, France and Canada. Migrants with different ethnicities from Central Asia constitute most of the migratory flows to Russia. Purpose of the article: The authors aimed to analyze the growing social anxiety about the rising influx of migrants from Central Asian countries in Russia, as an indicator of the risk of developing damaging social processes. Methods: The authors draw their conclusions from the results of a questionnaire survey given to residents of Yekaterinburg in 2016 (N=485) and 2019 (N=476), and a comparison of comments on the internet from Russians in 2019 and 2020 about the behavior of migrants from Central Asian countries. The methods for analysis include a descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, content analysis, comparative analysis, words clustering analysis and quantitative word frequency calculation. Findings & Value added: The authors conclude that the increasing social anxiety from residents of Yekaterinburg about the rising influx of migrants from Central Asian has moved to the next stage of latent conflict, which R. Darendorff describes as the stage of “awareness of latent interests”. The obtained results are important for the regulation of processes inter-country relations in the field of migration exchanges.

Highlights

Both sides are interested in increasing the flows of labor migration from Central Asian countries to Russia: the hosting and the sending countries
Migration processes in the Central Asian region play an important role in international relations due to the fact that their economic, political and social consequences are important for all countries of this region
The main characteristics of migrants from Central Asia influencing the character of their interactions with the host community are the different ethnicity, affiliation with a different culture and the civilizational lag

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Introduction

Both sides are interested in increasing the flows of labor migration from Central Asian countries to Russia: the hosting and the sending countries. Researchers believe that migrants contribute to the integration of their country into the world market, which may be especially important for the economic growth of developing countries [3]. The concept of the demographic development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 suggests ensuring the migration growth to reach the level of more than 300 thousand people annually: migrants are considered as an important labor and demographic resource. The Central Asian countries contribute politically and economically to the increase in the labor migration flow to Russia, experiencing pressure on the labor market from the numerous young generation. A positive factor for these countries is the monetary inflow from migrants working in Russia

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