Characteristics Of Migrants Research Articles

Far away from home and (not) lonely: Relational mobility in migrants’ heritage culture as a potential protection from loneliness

Loneliness is a major health risk with particular relevance for migrants, who are faced with the challenge of establishing social networks to avoid social isolation after migration. We suggest that forming new relationships may be hampered or facilitated by characteristics of migrants’ heritage culture (i.e., the culture that migrants were socialized in), specifically the level of heritage relational mobility (the amount of opportunities to form new relationships and individual choice regarding whom to relate to in the heritage culture). Individuals with higher (versus lower) heritage relational mobility may be able to more easily establish social networks after migration, because of being more experienced with forming new social relationships. As such, we hypothesized that they might be less susceptible to loneliness after migrating – at least in a host culture that is high in relational mobility. In two cross-sectional survey studies with samples from two of the largest groups of student migrants in the city of Groningen (Study 1: n = 118 German, n = 97 Chinese students; Study 2: n = 119 German, n = 92 Chinese students) in the Netherlands (i.e., a context with high relational mobility), higher heritage relational mobility was indeed related to lower loneliness. Having grown up in a cultural environment that offers opportunities to individually establish new social relationships may hence protect migrants from quite different heritage cultures from loneliness, at least if the host culture also offers such opportunities. We discuss alternative explanations, as well as theoretical and practical implications.

Feasibility and effects of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in cancer patients with or without migrant background.

e24137 Background: Parenteral nutrition is used in cancer patients (pts) requiring intensive nutrition support due to insufficient dietary intake and consuming tumor disease. As there is no data of HPN in pts with migrant background (MB), this observational study examined viability of HPN, influence on QoL and nutrition status of cancer pts with and without MB. Methods: Eligibility included ECOG ≥ 1, life expectancy ≥ 4 weeks, first time HPN for at least 28 days and written informed consent. Migrant background status and patient characteristics were assessed at baseline. At day 1 (baseline), day 14 and day 28 validated questionnaires assessed QoL, nutrition status (EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL, Subjective global assessment (SGA)), as well as feasibility and complications of HPN. Additionally, bioimpedance analysis, BMI and weight were measured to evaluate response of HPN. Results: Between Mai 2015 and November 2019, 68 pts were included, 17 of them with MB. Tumor entities were gastric (n = 41), esophageal (n = 20) and other (n = 7), treated in a curative (n = 14) or palliative (n = 54) concept. Overall, 40 pts were able to continue HPN until day 14, 26 pts until day 28. 42 pts left study due to death (1 with MB/8 overall), worsening of general condition (3/15), dietary improvement (1/2), change of supplier (1/5), informed consent withdrawal (0/1) and lost to follow up (2/11). Global QoL in all pts was stable from baseline to d14 (n = 36; 36.6 to 40.3), whereas QoL in pts with MB deteriorated (n = 9; 37.0 to 27.8). From baseline to d28, QoL in all pts improved (n = 23; 38.4 to 47.8) and in pts with MB QoL was stable (n = 7; 40.5 to 42.9). Medical problems associated with HPN occurred in 4/11 pts with MB (36%) and 11/37 pts without MB (30%), respectively. The majority of pts reported about HPN-associated organizational complications, whereas there is no significant difference of pts with MB (6/10) and without MB (20/38). SGA improvement was observed in all pts regardless of MB. During the course of HPN, there was no significant change in body weight and BMI in all pts, independent from MB. Conclusions: Overall, 59% of pts received HPN for 14 days, only 38% of pts for 28 days. Discontinuation was mainly due to disease progression. Feasibility and organizational problems did not affect duration of HPN. Assessing HPN prospectively shows, that defining the ideal point to start HPN appears to be essential for response to HPN. In our study, migrant background is not associated with a major difference in incidence of complications, viability, benefit or duration of HPN.

Global Migrations and Turkey

Today’s migration movements have shifted to another line compared to the pre-modern age. Migration movements have been dragged into a great change in terms of both quantitative and qualitative aspects especially with the transnational nature of migration movements reaching an unpredictable scale and limiting the possibility of predicting the effects a raised. In parallel with this process, due to the fact that globalization movements have become more intense and as this movement naturally differentiates migration from the past, the country of origin and destination countries were affected socio-economically, and the demographic characteristics of migrants have begun to change. Moreover, migrations resulting from wars and internal conflicts have become a factor that directs migration movements by giving dynamism and that is as effective as globalization. In this study carried out based on the literature, current trends related with the migrations will be analyzed through Turkey and World sample; and in the analysis made over both Turkey and the World, periodic differences will be discussed through national and international reports and publications. At the same time, the whole work will be tried to be connected with the current and active position of Turkey in terms of international migrations, and the answers to the question that Turkey is a transit or target country for the foreign migrants will be sought.

COVID-19 mortality among migrants living in Italy.

We aimed to compare COVID-19-specific and all-cause mortality rates among natives and migrants in Italy and to investigate the clinical characteristics of individuals dying with COVID-19 by native/migrant status. The mortality rates and detailed clinical characteristics of natives and migrants dying with COVID-19 were explored by considering the medical charts of a representative sample of patients deceased in Italian hospitals (n = 2,687) between February 21st and April 29th, 2020. The migrant or native status was assigned based on the individual's country of birth. The expected all-cause mortality among natives and migrants living in Italy was derived by the last available (2018) dataset provided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics. Overall, 68 individuals with a migration background were identified. The proportions of natives and migrants among the COVID-19-related deaths (97.5% and 2.5%, respectively) were similar to the relative all-cause mortality rates estimated in Italy in 2018 (97.4% and 2.6%, respectively). The clinical phenotype of migrants dying with COVID-19 was similar to that of natives except for the younger age at death. International migrants living in Italy do not have a mortality advantage for COVID-19 and are exposed to the risk of poor outcomes as their native counterparts.

Health determinants in irregular migrants with chronic diseases: analysis of the accesses to the clinic of a non-governmental organization

Of the 112 thousand irregular migrants in Lombardy, 49 thousand reside in the area of Milan. Data on their health conditions and needs are scarce and fragmented, especially about their socio-demographic and clinical determinants. To describe the main socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of irregular migrants with chronic diseases who access the clinic of a non-governmental organization that provides primary care and their association with the number of accesses. Retrospective observational study of a dataset containing information on irregular migrants with chronic diseases (N = 411) carried out at the Naga Onlus clinic in 2017. The males come essentially from Africa and are often affected by back pain or low back pain (BP-LBP); females, mostly from East Europe or Central-South America, are frequently hypertensive. Up to 24 years of age, anxiety or depression prevails; at 25-44 years BP-LBP, at 45-64 years diabetes and in advanced age, hypertension. The knowledge of a EU language and the diagnosis of BP-LBP are respectively positively and negatively associated to the number of accesses. Following the progressive aging with the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions, marginalization and stigma, the "healthy migrant" effect once characterizing irregular migrants is being replaced by the "exhausted migrant" effect and the assimilation of a state of health similar to that of native counterparts.

Trends and Characteristics of Inter-Provincial Migrants in Mainland China and Its Relation with Economic Factors: A Panel Data Analysis from 2011 to 2016

For areas facing challenges associated with migration, information about the number of migrants and their demographic characteristics is needed to formulate regional development planning. This study analyzed the trends and characteristics of inter-provincial migrants in provinces in mainland China and related economic factors using panel regression models. The results showed that the number of inter-provincial migrants had increased in provincial municipalities, as had the proportions of female and elderly migrants. A higher annual net migration rate was associated with slower growth rate of real gross domestic product (RGDP) per capita and faster growth rates of the tertiary and secondary industry GDPs. The higher proportion of female migrants was related to the faster growth rate of the tertiary industry GDP and the lower proportion of the secondary industry in GDP. The proportion of youth migrants was positively related to educational investment, while the proportion of elderly migrants was positively related to financial expenditure per capita on culture and recreation. These empirical results were robust across different estimation methods, except the result about the proportion of elderly migrants. These findings further reveal the association between inter-provincial migration and economy and provide policy reference for the management of migrants.

Influencing Factors of Rural Families’ Migration to Urban Area: The Case of Kabul, Afghanistan

Aims: This study aimed to determine factors influencing rural families’ migration to urban areas in Kabul, Afghanistan.
 Place and Duration of Study: Data were collected in different neighbourhoods of Kabul, Afghanistan during the July-September period of 2019. Data analyses and manuscript preparation were completed in the October-December period of 2019.
 Methodology: First, the most populated neighbourhoods of Kabul, particularly those areas where the majority of families migrated from rural areas were determined. The data of the study were collected from 400 rural-urban migrants in Kabul city. The questionnaires were filled during face to face informal meetings with households. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including frequencies, percentages, and means. The questionnaire included socio-economic characteristics of rural-urban migrants, pushing and pulling factors which affected rural migration, reasons for insecurity in rural areas, and satisfaction and reintegration of migrants in Kabul city.
 Results: The results show that unemployment with 9.53 and fear of terror with 9.15 are the most effective pushing factors for rural families to migrate. However, the most important pulling factors which make Kabul city attractive for rural families are the issues regarding rights (women rights with 8.82, having right to vote with 8.73 and human rights with 8.71).
 Conclusion: In the last five years Afghanistan had huge number immigration internally (1.1 million person) and internationally (1.7 million people) Results of this study suggest that to slower rural-urban migration in Afghanistan, rural development programs should be implemented, and the priority of these programs should be given to the creation of employment opportunities and eliminating gender inequalities in rural areas. Otherwise, either rural-urban migration or dissatisfaction of being in Kabul and preferring not reintegrating back to their villages will make rural-urban migrants seek international migration.

The Preferences of Political Elites and Humanitarian Immigration to the United States

How do the preferences of political elites shape humanitarian immigration to the United States? Focusing on the asylum and refugee systems, we trace the ways that the preferences of political elites affect the number and characteristics of migrants who receive relief. Our findings suggest that presidential preferences remain crucial in determining who is admitted in the U.S. refugee system and that congressional preferences are important in determining the number admitted. The preferences of both appear to matter considerably less on asylum decisions. These results highlight the difficulty of eliminating or reducing the role of the executive branch in American immigration policy, and suggest the importance of the design of the immigration enforcement bureaucracy in limiting the role of elite preferences in determining humanitarian immigration outcomes.

How useful are survey data for analyzing immigration policy?

AbstractLarge-scale population surveys have been an important source of data for the study of migration, and in many countries provide the only widely accessible data on migrants’ characteristics and outcomes after they arrive. For immigration policymakers, however, official survey data have some important limitations. Nonresponse to surveys is particularly likely to affect newly arrived migrants, biasing analysis toward more settled populations who have different characteristics (e.g., different fiscal costs), and hindering analysis of how integration outcomes evolve after arrival. Survey data are not well suited to capturing the dynamics of a mobile population, particularly among groups of migrants who spend substantial periods outside the country. And perhaps most importantly, official survey data usually identify migrants by country of birth and nationality (and sometimes self-reported reason for migration) but rarely include information on a person’s legal status either at arrival or at the time of data collection. This significantly limits the possibilities for evaluating policy and the impacts of policy changes: the characteristics of migrants coming for different reasons can vary enormously, so policymakers should be cautious about assuming that aggregate evidence on migrants or migration will be relevant to the specific routes on which they are taking decisions. This article illustrates some of these problems in practice showing how official survey data in the United Kingdom have been unable to answer one of the key questions facing the government, namely how many and which EU citizens need to apply to secure their residence rights after Brexit.

Perspektiva životnog puta u istraživanjima starenja i migracija

Perspektiva životnog puta u istraživanjima starenja i migracija

Dementia among migrants and ethnic minorities in Italy: rationale and study protocol of the ImmiDem project

IntroductionDue to the ongoing demographic and epidemiological transitions, estimating the phenomenon of dementia in migrants and minority groups, exploring its characteristics and challenges and implementing dedicated healthcare policies, constitute emerging...

ПОДХОДЫ К УЧЕТУ ГРАЖДАНСТВА И ЭТНИЧНОСТИ МИГРАНТОВ В РОССИИ

The increased intensity of international migration flows affects the need to record citizenship, ethnicity, nationality in statistical aggregates. Active migration shows the need for changes in the approach to taking into account the ethnic structure of the population and the flows of permanent and labor international migration. The results of the analysis of statistical records of citizenship and ethnic structure of the population and migrants in Russia and some foreign countries are presented in the article. The analysis of accounting indicators in Russia is based on official sources of the Federal State Statistics Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. The information of these organizations makes it possible to analyze the ethnic component of international migration flows. The paper analyzes the approaches to accounting for the ethno-demographic characteristics of migrants at the federal level. It is shown that during the current registration, migrants indicate their citizenship and country of birth, as well as their nationality and religion by self-determination. However, in official publications, data on migration are narrowed down to the item “Citizenship”. Based on the approach about the likely mobility of ethnic self-identification, the set of variables for specifying the socio-cultural characteristics of both the resident population and foreign citizens could include several indicators. Based on the analysis of the experience of foreign countries in the development of questions on the ethno-demographic characteristics of the population, the authors propose, in the framework of the census of the Russian Federation, to consider the possibility of including additional data on the place of birth of the respondent's father and mother. The request for this information does not contradict the constitutional law, however, it will allow obtaining more correct data on the ethnic and cultural roots of the person being rewritten for analysis. Nationality based on self-identification is included in the list of issues in the All-Russian Population Census. However, the authors propose the issue of nationality in the migration registration card. This is due to the fact that now operational accounting does not take into account changes in the national composition of the country and its individual regions, which limits the possibilities of implementing a balanced ethnopolitics.

Сучасні тренди державного регулювання міжнародної трудової міграції

The problem of labor migration in Ukraine has become relevant in recent years, as it significantly affects the socio-economic development of both donor and recipient countries. As a complex economic phenomenon, labor migration changes the composition of labor resources, creates a new situation in labor markets, exacerbates the demographic situation in the country. The article is concerned with the analysis of problems of labor migration of economically active population in Ukraine and aspects of formation of the State policy of regulation of migration processes. The purpose of the article is theoretical substantiation, development of scientific and methodological bases and practical recommendations aimed at improving the system of regulation of international migration of economically active population in the context of globalization in order to obtain socio-economic benefits from the State participation in migration processes, etc. In the process of detailed analysis of the characteristics of migrants, clear trends in modern migration processes have been identified: migrants mainly are from rural areas of the west of the country; migrant workers are mostly men; younger people and rural residents predominate among migrant workers; people with higher education are less likely to migrate, while people with vocational education are overrepresented among migrant workers; migrants risk losing skills, etc. The mechanism of regulation of migration flows is substantiated – as a set of measures of influence of the State bodies on migration objects in order to ensure the optimal level of migration that meets the needs of the national / regional labor market and helps stabilize the macroeconomic situation in the country / region; tasks of the mechanism are defined. Functioning and effective development of mechanisms for regulating labor migration processes, as a special tool for the transformation of regional labor markets – combines socio-cultural, research and economic functions, necessitates an interdisciplinary approach to substantiate the increase of the competitiveness of the latter. The scientific basis of this approach is the methodology of institutional analysis – a set of concepts, principles and provisions based on the theories of human, intellectual and migratory capital, institutional economics, the theory of territorial migration systems and more.

Representation of migrants in the Russian mass media and its dynamics (2010-2020)

Over the last decades, scholars have reported a high level of xenophobia in Russia, which persists and spreads amidst all strata of the population. This shows the significance of the migration issue in the country and its topicality in the public discourse. However, the explanatory models used to analyze the perception of immigrants in Western countries do not find absolute empirical support in Russia. For this reason, researchers emphasize the importance of media discourse as a leading factor in constructing attitudes toward the foreign migrants in Russia. We take into account, firstly, the persistence of xenophobic attitudes among Russians, and secondly — the role of the migrants’ image, constructed by mass media, in shaping the perception of the immigrants among the locals. In this regard, this article hypothesizes that despite the official ban of the “hate language” and ethnization of crime, the negative representation of immigrants not only persists in the Russian media discourse, but is unfortunately increasing. To test this hypothesis, we utilize the results of research on the representation of immigration in Russian media discourse published between 2010 and 2020, which we analyze in the methodological framework of critical discourse analysis. We conclude that at the end of the current decade, there have been certain improvements in the media coverage of the migration issue, caused by the shift of the spotlight onto other problems, thus, the negative images of immigrants simply were not a part of the media agenda. On the one hand, this can help reduce ethnic tensions, although on the other, it complicates the development of the culture of interaction between the local and immigrant communities, since the national and cultural characteristics of migrants and their experience of living in Russia remain underrepresented in the media.

The Entrepreneurial Activity of Chinese Migrants on the Border Areas of Russia and China at the Turn of the Centuries: the Features of “Shuttle” Migration in the Context of State and Regional Policy

Russia and China have extensive border areas in the Far East. For more than 150 years, Slavic and Confucian civilizations — Russians and Chinese — have been closely involved here. The constant presence and economic activity of Chinese migrants in this region has become a specif-ic feature of the development of the border areas. In the article, the author analyzes the entrepre-neurial activity of Chinese migrants at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, describes in detail the socio-economic conditions and features of state and regional policies in this historical period, and highlights migration movements across the border. This paper addresses important questions: First, how were the entrepreneurial activities of Chinese migrants and their migration movements caused by the socioeconomic situation in the Russian Far East and by the ethnic characteristics of migrants? Second, how did Chinese migrants apprehend changes in state and regional policies on border areas and the opening of borders? Third, how did the border areas serve as platforms for their start-ups and do Chinese migrants consider them to be such plat-forms in the future? Through my analysis, I create a better understanding of the features of the Russian population and Chinese migrants` interaction on the border areas of the Far East, and of the perspectives for Chinese business in the peripheral regions of the conglomerate societies of Russia and China.

Transnational Migration of Koreans to the New York Metropolitan Area: Perspectives on Residential Selection and Relationship with Koreatowns (English Translation)

This study explores the behavior of transnational migrants in a global city—in this case, Koreatowns in the New York metropolitan area. Global changes in post-war capitalism and US immigration policies attracted various Korean migrant groups to the New York metropolitan area. These can be classified as old-timers, who migrated before or during the 1980s in the hope of securing permanent residency, and newcomers—relatively young and highly educated professionals who have migrated since the 1990s. Old-timers typically relocate to the suburbs via ethnic enclaves, on which they are strongly reliant. In contrast, newcomers are dispersed across the metropolitan area, sometimes visiting Koreatown as a node of the ethnic human network or for Korean-style service. These distinctive behaviors mean that migrant characteristics change with the economic growth of emerging countries, in turn changing the urban space of global cities.

Study on Social Integration Identification and Characteristics of Migrants from “Yangtze River to Huaihe River” Project: A Time-Driven Perspective

The “Yangtze River to Huaihe River” project is another large-scale trans-basin water diversion project in China, following the South-to-North Water Division Project. The reservoir project is in the period of China’s rapid development of modernization, informatization and marketization. During this period, reservoir-induced migrants have great differences in resource endowment and development opportunities, so they show different characteristics in the integration process. In order to clarify these characteristics and formulate corresponding policies based on these characteristics to help them integrate into the society of the resettlement area as soon as possible, this paper has completed two aspects of work: First, a method for identifying social integration is proposed. Second, the characteristics of social integration of different migrant groups in different time dimensions are analyzed. This study has two important findings: First, the extent of information sources and understanding of policies has a greater impact on the social integration of migrants. The wider the source of information and the more understanding of policies, the more it helps migrants to integrate into society. Second, the social network relationship established by the female migrant group in the maintenance activities will greatly promote their social integration.

Migración forzada y procesos de violencia: Los migrantes centroamericanos en su paso por México

Migration of Central Americans in transit through Mexico has decades of history, however, a few years ago has taken a notorious visibility. In this article, based on the review of multiple sources and especially in reports of non-governmental organizations, it is argued that the cross-border and irregular human mobility of Central Americans who passed through the shelters and houses of the Documentation Network of the Defending Organizations of Migrants (REDODEM) in 2015 can be analyzed from the category of forced migration. The use of this category allows: 1) Address the structural causes of migration; 2) investigate the transit processes of migrants in contexts of accentuated vulnerability; 3) account for the violence suffered by migrants and the lack of respect for their human rights (in Mexico). Through the review of various studies on the subject and especially reports on the situation of Central Americans in transit through Mexico of the Documentation Network of Migrant Defender Organizations (REDODEM), the forced migration of Central Americans for a specific period of time (2015) is reported, with an emphasis on three processes: 1) the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of Central American migrants; 2) the description of the type of crimes suffered by migrants and the spatial distribution of the places where this happens; 3) and finally a list of social actors and institutions that violated the rights of migrants. The temporal delimitation has to do with two processes: the crisis of unaccompanied Central American migrant minors (2014) and with the implementation of the Southern Border Plan one year earlier (2014). One of the contributions of the work is to realize that the processes of violence were not generalized and that they were concentrated especially in certain specific places. In addition, it realizes that these processes of violence were differentiated depending on the social actor or institution that committed the crime.

FEATURES OF THE MIGRATION MOVEMENT OF UKRAINIANS TO GERMANY AND PROSPECTS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

The article deals with a popular direction of the migration movement of Ukrainians in the conditions of increasing migration flows from Ukraine, in particular, the migrations of Ukrainians to Germany. The purpose of article is an analysis the current wave of migration from Ukraine to Germany and assessing the prospects for the development of migration processes in this direction. The modern fifth wave of migration from Ukraine to Germany, which began after 2010, stands out as an integral part of the history of Ukrainian migration and differs from the”wage-earning» wave on the grounds that it is characterized also by noneconomic motives of migration. The quantitative and socio-demographic characteristics of Ukrainian migrants, especially the fifth wave, their migration experience, educational level and employment were determined on the basis of an analysis of data from the Federal Office of Statistics of Germany and other sources. Particular attention is paid to highly skilled labour migrants from Ukraine who came to Germany after 2010: the reasons for their migration, sources of access to the German labour market, primarily through the Blue Card program and through the educational channel, are being investigated. Further prospects for labour migration from Ukraine to Germany are evaluated in the context of the new migration law in Germany: done a comparative analysis of the migration attractiveness of Germany and Poland, which has significantly simplified migration from Ukraine, and assessed the possibility of returning migrant workers to Ukraine. It is concluded that a further gradual increase in the number of highly skilled Ukrainians in Germany and the final elimination of the fifth wave of Ukrainian migration is dominated by professionals.

Интеграция мигрантов второго поколения в возрасте 18-35 лет в России: результаты исследовательского проекта (Second Generation Migrants Aged 18–35 in Russia: Research Project Results)

Russian Abstract: В статье представлены результаты двухлетнего исследовательского проекта, посвященного интеграционным характеристикам мигрантов второго поколения в молодом взрослом возрасте (18—35 лет) из Закавказья и Средней Азии в России. Исследовательский проект включал интернет-опрос, осуществленный посредством таргетирования в социальных сетях (N=12524), и серию интервью (N=401) в десяти регионах России. Основываясь на немецкой традиции изучения интеграции мигрантов, авторы выделяют четыре аспекта интеграции: структурный, социальный, культурный и идентификационный, — каждому из которых посвящен раздел статьи. Авторы приходят к выводу, что в части доходов мигранты второго поколения из Закавказья и Средней Азии не отличаются от сопоставимых сверстников, в то время как в части образовательных траекторий эти группы существенно различаются, при этом высшее образование чаще всех получают закавказские мигранты второго поколения, затем — местные, затем — мигранты второго поколения из Средней Азии. Круги общения мигрантов второго поколения инклюзивны и в них доминируют представители «прочих» этнических категорий, жениться же они предпочитают на представителях «своей» категории, однако существует значительная группа мигрантов второго поколения, придерживающаяся «либеральных» установок и практик в части гендерных отношений, более того, хотя мигранты второго поколения в целом консервативнее местных, этот разрыв невелик. Идентификация мигрантов второго поколения со «своей» этнической категорией сильна, но это не мешает им чувствовать себя своими в России и идентифицировать себя с тем населенным пунктом и регионом, где они выросли. Если сравнивать положение российских мигрантов второго поколения с положением сопоставимых групп в прочих принимающих обществах, можно говорить, что в России интеграция этой группы мигрантов протекает успешно, наравне с такими принимающими обществами, как Канада и Австралия. Связано это, однако, в первую очередь не со взвешенной миграционной политикой, как в указанных странах, а с разнообразными факторами «советского наследия», в частности, с общим в недавнем прошлом культурным пространством, а также с эгалитарной городской средой — именно эти факторы имеют первостепенное значение для понимания миграционной системы, в центре которой находится Россия. English Abstract: The article presents the results of a two-year research project devoted to the integration of second generation migrants in the young adult age range (18-35 years old) from the regions of Transcaucasia and Central Asia currently living in Russia. The project includes an online survey where respondents were recruited using a targeting procedure on social networking sites (N = 12524) and a series of interviews (N = 401) in 10 regions of Russia. The article contains four parts — each dealing with one of the four migrant integration dimensions — which have been delineated based on the German tradition in migrant integration studies: structural, social, cultural, and identificational integration. The authors show that second generation migrants from Transcaucasia and Central Asia do not differ from their local peers in terms of their earnings, but there are significant variations in their educational level: higher education characterizes first of all second-generation migrants from Transcaucasia to a lesser extent local youth, even less so — second-generation migrants from Central Asia. Social networks of second-generation migrants are inclusive and dominated by the representatives of “other” ethnic categories; however, their marriages are mostly monoethnic. A considerable share of second-generation migrants have “liberal” attitudes and practices in the realm of gender relations, and although second- generation migrants are generally more conservative than the local youth, the gap is minor. Second-generation migrants have a strong identification with “their own” ethnic categories but that impedes neither their feeling “at home” in Russia nor their belonging in the town or region of Russia where they grew up. A comparison of integration characteristics of second-generation migrants in Russia with situations in other migrant-receiving countries shows that the Russian case is successful, comparable with Canada and Australia. However, the success is explained not with the well-reasoned migration policy as in the latter states, but with the various factors of the Soviet past including a common cultural environment as well as egalitarian urban landscapes that are of paramount importance for the comprehension of the migration system centered around Russia.