👥🌐 Migration and migrants are now widely perceived as risks.

In many countries, anti-migration sentiments and xenophobia had for long been on the rise. This spurred a securitisation of migration and the pandemic added concerns over health security to this already strong trend.

This is fuelled by the climate crisis which has already been raising doubts over the future of extensive driving, flying and traveling as is so typical for our hyper-mobile era; the pandemic further accelerated this trend.

Also the rise of authoritarian ruling had been noticed in many parts of the world and the pandemic only spurred this trend.

It is remarkable that liberal and authoritarian states around the globe alike turned to ultra-radical policy measures and largely outlawed fundamental liberties including the right to leave one’s country, city or even home, at least temporarily, not seen since the exceptional times of martial law, the Chinese Hukou system or the Soviet era, writes Franck Düvell, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-pandemic-and-international-migration/

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👥 The host countries’ societies do not always appreciate a seemingly obvious fact: migrants are not just a “workforce” or some “median population.”

They move from one country to another in search of jobs and better life opportunities. They have their own problems and vulnerabilities.

Usually, this understanding comes when countries receive large numbers of migrants. This was the case in West Germany after it implemented its guest worker programmes in the 1960s. This is happening now in Russia, a country that became the centre of a vast Eurasian migration system relatively recently, with the collapse of the USSR. It rapidly turned into one of the world’s largest immigration systems – alongside those in North America, Western Europe and the Middle East (centred on the Persian Gulf).

Over 281 million people, or about 3.6 percent of the planet’s population, are now involved in the processes of international migration. This is 128 million, or three times more than in 1990.

Thus, international migration is exerting an enormous influence on the demographic dynamics, labour markets and socio-economic processes – both in host states and countries of origin. The academic community as well as politicians and journalists tend to approach migration as a macroeconomic process, ignoring the needs of individual migrants.

Meanwhile, it is no less important to see how migration affects the destinies of individual migrants and their family members, not just the economies and societies that are involved in migration processes, write the authors of the new Valdai report, titled “The Social Problems of International Migrants”.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/the-social-problems-of-international-migrants/

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📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On December 19 at 16:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host a discussion on migration issues. The discussion is timed to coincide with the International Migrants Day, which is celebrated annually on December 18.

Over the centuries, migrants have made a major contribution to the cultural, social and economic development of host countries. Today, more than 281 million people, almost 3.6% of the world’s population, are involved in the processes of international migration. The international migration has a tremendous impact on demographic dynamics, labour markets and socio-economic processes in both receiving and sending countries.

Russia has recently become the centre of Eurasian migration. The Eurasian migration system has rapidly become one of the four largest in the world, along with those of North America, Western Europe, and Middle East.

❓Is it fair to consider migration an unambiguously negative phenomenon?
❓What are the mechanisms for protecting the rights of foreign workers in various host countries? How can they be improved?
❓What migration problems does Russia face? How can they be solved?

These and other questions will be answered by the participants of the discussion, who include the authors of the Valdai Club report “The Social Problems of International Migrants”.

🎙 Speakers:

🇹🇯 Rashid Alimov, SCO Secretary-General (2016–2018), Professor at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and at the Taihe Institute
(China)

🇷🇺 Maria Apanovich, Associate Professor, Department of Demographic and Migration Policy, MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Ministry

🇪🇬 Nourhan ElSheikh, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University, Member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸 Andrey Korobkov, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee (USA) (co-author of the report)

🇷🇺 Dmitry Poletaev, Leading Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director at the Regional Public Organisation “Migration Research Center” (co-author of the report)

Moderator:

🚩 Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-migration-issues/

Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our website or call +79269307763.

A link to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, Twitter, VKontakte, Telegram and Zen.

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👥🌐 On December 18, the world commemorates International Migrants Day.

Over the past forty years, the share of international migrants in the world has grown from just over 2% to 3.6% and in absolute terms is equivalent to the population of a small European state.

Over this entire period, states have accumulated tremendous experience in terms of receiving foreigners from various walks of life. However, as practice shows, factors regularly arise that affect changes in the trends and intensity of migration flows.

Social problems are among the most difficult to solve; the report by Dmitry Poletaev and Andrey Korobkov “The Social Problems of International Migrants”, is devoted to this subject.

Despite decades of positive experience in the reception and integration of migrants, which have been accumulated by modern states, migrants remain a socially vulnerable group.

From the exclusively social problems that are typical for all categories of citizens, we are returning to the issue of economics, namely, qualitative forecasting, writes Valdai Club expert Maria Apanovich.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/international-migration/

⏰ We will discuss the migration problems tomorrow, December 19, at 16:00 Moscow time, within the framework of the expert discussion. Watch the live broadcast on our website.

#Norms_and_Values #migration #migrants

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⏰ TODAY: at 16:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host a discussion on migration issues.

The discussion is timed to coincide with the International Migrants Day, which is celebrated annually on December 18.

❓Is it fair to consider migration an unambiguously negative phenomenon?
❓What are the mechanisms for protecting the rights of foreign workers in various host countries? How can they be improved?
❓What migration problems does Russia face? How can they be solved?

These and other questions will be answered by the participants of the discussion, who include the authors of the Valdai Club report “The Social Problems of International Migrants”.

A link to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, Twitter, VKontakte, Telegram and Zen.

#Norms_and_Values #migration #migrants

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🎥 LIVE: at 16:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host a discussion on migration issues.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239065

📄 Valdai Club report “The Social Problems of International Migrants”

#Norms_and_Values #migration #migrants

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👥🌐 Behind the Glass Wall: The Problems of International Migration

On December 19, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion on topical issues of international migration. The discussion was timed to coincide with International Migrants Day, which is commemorated annually on December 18th. The moderator was Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

💬 Dmitry Poletaev, leading researcher at the Institute for Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and director of the Center for Migration Studies, who co-authored the report “The Social Problems of International Migrants”, pointed to the “glass walls” effect. According to him, migrants are present around us; we see them, but we don't hear them, and they don't hear us.

💬 Andrey Korobkov,the second co-author of the report, professor of political science at the University of Tennessee (USA), noted the split of the migration flow into two unequal parts - the elite (‘expats’, educated migrants, investment migrants, students, academic migrants) and basic immigrants (low-skilled migrants, illegal immigrants, family members, refugees). In his opinion, it is also important that both research and public policy tend to view migration as a macroeconomic process in which the people themselves are “lost”.

💬 Rashid Alimov,  professor of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Taihe Institute (China), Secretary General of the SCO (2016–2018), presented a view from Tajikistan. He stressed that Tajik migration to Russia has its own history, which has both dramatic chapters and wonderful stories. Both parties view labour migration as a mutually beneficial process.

💬 Another view from the Global South was offered by Nurhan ElSheikh, professor of political science at Cairo University, a member of the Egyptian Council for International Affairs, who spoke about the positive and negative aspects of labour migration for Egypt as a migration “donor”. She considers compliance with the legislative framework in migration issues to be extremely important.

💬 Maria Apanovich, associate Professor of the MGIMO Department of Demographic and Migration Policy, pointed out the importance of the gender aspects of migration. Gender imbalance in the labour market exists all over the world, and migrants, as the most vulnerable category of the population, are particularly affected by it. 

💬 Gulnara Gadzhimuradova, Associate Professor of the Department of Demographic and Migration Policy at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, pointed to the importance of selective migration mentioned by Korobkov against the backdrop of a tightening of migration policy. Countries are trying to attract only highly qualified migrants with the necessary specialties.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/behind-the-glass-wall-the-problems-of-international-migration/

#Norms_and_Values #migration #migrants

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🇹🇯🇷🇺 Over the past three decades, Russia has accumulated extensive experience in receiving, adapting and integrating migrants.

This process is constantly being improved, since with each new wave of mass migration its directions, nature and forms change. The legal and regulatory framework of Russia related to migration is also changing, more and more towards an integrated approach to solving migration-related issues.

Tajik migration to Russia has its own history, which has seen both dramatic events (especially in the early 90s) and wonderful stories, as well as heroes worthy of attention, not only among the Russian public, but also on the world stage.

It should be noted that since the beginning of the new century, interaction in the field of migration has been one of the high-priority areas of cooperation between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Russian Federation. This topic is invariably on the agenda of meetings between the presidents of the two countries. Both parties view labour migration as a mutually beneficial process, and it really is.

At the same time, there are a number of issues related to the adaptation of Tajik labour migrants within Russia, writes Valdai Club expert Rashid Alimov.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/adaptation-of-foreign-migrants-in-russia/

#Norms_and_Values #Tajikistan #migrants

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