Laboratory for International Migration Studies

The necessity of the creation of the laboratory is related to the rise of the importance of problems of labour migration control at the national level in the context of the globalisation of the world economy and the formation of the migration policy in the interest of the sustainable development of Russian society as well as the necessity of scientific and expert support of the migration policy of Russia and the development of recommendations for its enhancement.

Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development Priority Level: ж

1. To create a laboratory of international migration studies at the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the participation of a world-class invited researcher – Martin Philip Lester;
2. To determine new trends of international labour migration in the context of the globalisation of the world economy and the impact of socio-economic and geopolitical crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic;
3. The determination of the consequences of international labour migration for the donor and recipient countries and societies, the direction of transformation of national migration policies in the context of the impact of crises;
4. The development of suggestions for the coordination of approaches and mechanisms of labour migration control at the international level, including in application to the migration policy of the Russian Federation in the context of the integration into the Eurasian Economic Union.

Tasks:

1. To determine the factors and forms of global migration in the setting of the increasing social and economic inequality between countries and regions of the world;
2. To find out the trends of international labour migration as well as of the social, demographic and geographic structure of labour migration flows;
3. To develop a complex methodology for the assessment of the consequences of the transformation of labour migration from the 2000s to the 2020s, giving an assessment of the social, economic, demographic and political consequences of the labour migration in the key recipient countries;
4. To develop a methodology to forecast the supply and demand for foreign workforce in primary recipient countries in the medium and the long term accounting for the trends of demographic development and crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic;
5. To assess the consequences of international labour migration for the key recipient countries;
6. To estimate the impact of the growth of the global inequality and isolationism on the transformation of the migration policies of the key recipient countries from the 2000s to the 2020s;
7. To generalise the foreign experience of labour migration control and to adapt their experience to the Russian migration policy;
8. To determine specific features of labour migration regulation in the context of integration groups (EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, EEU);
9. To develop a proposal for the coordination of approaches and mechanisms of labour immigration control at the international level.