Abstract
The results of the study of migration risks of labor migrants from Ukraine are presented in this article. The purpose of the study is to find out the differences in the perception of obstacles and risks that arise in the process of work abroad among experienced and potential labour migrants from Ukraine within the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional components of their intercultural competence. The study has been implemented from the standpoint of a set of analytical tools, including: the concept of the advantages of replacing the “risk/reliability” scheme with the “risk/hazard” scheme; views of risk and chance as interrelated variables that motivate people to try to explore the world and overcome obstacles; the concept of “triple individualization” in a risk society. It has been found that social risks are hidden in the imbalance of intercultural competence of experienced labor migrants and are not realized by potential labor migrants. It has been proven that the greatest social danger for labor migrants from Ukraine is the loss of components of competence and initiative. It has been established that the key points of the comparative analysis of social risks faced by labor migrants from Ukraine open up prospects for improving the methodology for studying social (and socio-cultural, in particular) risks.
Highlights
Current global trends create preconditions for the in-depth scientific understanding of international migration and associated social risks, both in migrant origin and host societies
New social risks for labour migrants emerge outside the conflict between labour and capital, which has been characteristic of industrial society
We focus on the social risks associated with the internal obstacles of labour migrants
Summary
Current global trends create preconditions for the in-depth scientific understanding of international migration and associated social risks, both in migrant origin and host societies. The intensification of migration processes poses risks of an economic, socio-cultural, and political-managerial nature. A significant share of migrants on the labour market leads to increased unemployment among host countries, lowering of the minimum wage, and a spread of shadow labour relations. The socio-cultural and political management faces challenges related to integration of migrants into host societies and associated problems (growth of xenophobic sentiments, social exclusion, ghettoization of migrants, etc.) (Golobof et al 2011). Migration flows donor countries face the multidimensional effects of external migration, with the most notable being a reduction of labour resources, namely the loss of professional skills by a significant proportion of migrant workers who have to practice a profession they had not been trained for, their precarization, and demographic problems, etc. Functional implications for donor countries are numerous, e.g., mitigation of unemployment, cash inflows that stimulate production, improvement of economic dynamics, etc. (Li et al 2017)
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