Published June 25, 2024 | Version v1
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Central Asian migrants in Russia: adaptation strategies

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  • 1. ROR icon The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Description

Despite the widespread attitude towards migrants from Central Asia as “guest
workers”, a significant part of them de facto live in Russia permanently. Some of them are holders
of a Russian passport, some have a residence permit or temporary residence permit, and some do
not have a regulated legal status. Most of them hardly ever leave Russian territory, visiting their
homeland once a year for one or two months and returning again to their place of residence in
Russia. Unlike their compatriots who make a choice of circular migration, these are people who
have firmly linked their life and the life of their children with Russia. However, their strategy
cannot always be described in terms of “integration.” In many cases, a more adequate category of
description is “transnationalism.” The latter involves maintaining intensive interactions in two
social spaces simultaneously, both in the country of origin and in the host one. This paper reviews
actual academic literature on Central Asian migration, transnationalism, the problem of adaptation
of migrants, and also offers the results of our own research into the adaptation strategies of
migrants from Central Asia in Russia.

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