Socio-cultural attitudes of Muslims in the city of Moscow: socio-psychological aspects

Abstract

The question of socio-psychological adaptation of Muslims from the countries of the near abroad in the metropolis of Moscow is raised. Describes the main ethnic, religious, and psychological characteristics of migrants who profess the religion of Islam. Possible ways of solving problems related to the successful adaptation of migrants are commented. Examples of the successful functioning of various centers, whose activities are directly related to the support of migrants in the Russian Federation. The article presents statistics of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia for 2018, reflecting the process of migration of residents of the former Soviet republics to Russia. Attention is focused on the processes of global migration of people, in particular Muslims from Central Asia, contributing to the development of the local population's negative attitude to visitors, in particular migrant phobia and Islamophobia. The article considers possible and acceptable algorithms of work with migrants in order to avoid such negativity and rapid adaptation of migrants in Moscow. It is emphasized that migration processes involve not only adults, but also children who need specialized support of employees of educational institutions and social services, whose activities should be aimed at teaching Russian as a foreign language, psychological and pedagogical support, familiarity with the cultural and historical heritage of the country. Attention is focused on the fact that a sense of tolerance and tolerance should be present in all people involved in migration processes. The importance of finding compromise solutions, joint efforts to solve the problems of immigrants is fixed.