Migration As A Risk Factor For Regional Stability

Abstract

In recent years, migration processes have become a global problem that has exacerbated the political situation in many countries around the world. Migrant workers from the countries of the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine and Moldova arrive in Russia. Migration problems are topical for many Russian regions and in some of them have become a source of regional stability risks. One such region is the North Caucasus. Migration problems have moved from conflict-generating to risk-generating. The presence of specific migration flows, although not on a large scale, and their possible growth in the foreseeable future in the North Caucasus requires the identification and analysis of risks arising in the field of migration. Scientific and expert assessment of migration processes is an important condition for effective management decisions. The article analyzes the peculiarities of migration processes in the Stavropol Krai and the republics located in the North Caucasus Federal District and concludes that the risks caused by migration are due to changes in the "ethnic balance". This balance is not an absolute indicator, but a consequence of long processes of mutual adaptation. The work on adaptation insufficiently involves public organizations, national and cultural autonomy, which prefer to focus on ethnic identity rather than adaptation and integration. The basis of work on social and cultural adaptation of migrants is the strengthening of civic identity, the development of civil society and the involvement of migrants in social activity on a non-ethnic basis