MODERN YOUTH MIGRATION – KEY DIRECTIONS AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

The work contains a brief overview of the research directions of youth migration in the world and in Russia, and in its main part is devoted to the analysis of the directions and structural characteristics of youth migration – in general and within Russia. We used Rosstat data on individual migration flows (intraregional, interregional, international) in the context of 1-year-old and 5–year–old age groups as a whole for 2011-2018, in the context of individual regions and directions - for 2016-2018, in the context of municipalities - for 2016-2018. The main regions – centers of attraction for young people, as well as municipalities receiving the most intensive influx of migrants aged 15-19 and 20-29 years have been identified. The paper takes into account the current problems of long-term migration statistics, incompleteness or redundancy of migration accounting in certain ages.