Abstract
This research targets at revealing the influence of labor migration on the transformation of family relations, sexual and matrimonial behavior of the Tajikistan population. Tajikistan is one of the countries that are best known for their active sending labor migrants abroad to work. The majority of labor migrants work in the Russian Federation. The research included combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including the statistical method, as well as quantitative sociological polls of migrants and their family members, as well as qualitative interviews of expert and migrants. The qualitative sociological poll was carried out in two countries (Russia and Tajikistan) based on two questionnaires similar by structure and coverage of the studied problems in 2012-2013. The research detected transformation of the family relations, matrimonial mindsets, and sexual behavior of the labor migrants, which affected their families and were able to affect the demographic situation in Tajikistan in the future. Two ways of satisfaction of sexual needs of the labor migrants were revealed. The first way is paid sexual services, i.e. using the services of prostitutes. The second way is a
Highlights
Tajikistan is one of the countries that are best known for their active sending labor migrants abroad to work
The research detected transformation of the family relations, matrimonial mindsets, and sexual behavior of the labor migrants, which affected their families and were able to affect the demographic situation in Tajikistan in the future
For a more detailed analysis, the data of many questions were matched for the two groups of the responders, which allowed obtaining more impersonalized information with regard to the influence of the labor migration on the family relations in Tajikistan based on the opinion of the two parties: the labor migrants in Russia and their spouses who stayed in Tajikistan
Summary
Tajikistan is one of the countries that are best known for their active sending labor migrants abroad to work. According to our previous researches, there is only one foreigner working in Tajikistan against 400 Tajiks working abroad (Ryazantsev, 2007). The significant growth of labor migration from Tajikistan started in the mid-1990s, when the socio-economic situation in the country became considerably worse forcing many citizens of the republic to seek jobs abroad. According to the information of the statistical service of Tajikistan, 420 thousand people worked abroad, more than 413 thousand of them worked in Russia. The real number of labor migrants from Tajikistan is greater. According to the Federal Migration Service, approximately 410 thousand labor migrants from Tajikistan obtained permission for work and patents in 2012 in www.ccsenet.org/ass
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