The problem of integration of ethnic migrants in the Russian Far East and its features in Sakhalin region

• Published in: Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science
• Main Author: A. T. Kon’Kov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Publishing House of Lomonosov Moscow State University 2015
• Subjects: российский дальний восток; этническая миграция; межэтнические отношения; межэтническая напряженность; интеграция и адаптация этнических мигрантов; russian far east; ethnic migration; interethnic relationships; interethnic tension; integration and adaptation of ethnic migrants; Sociology (General); HM401-1281; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2015-0-1-206-220; https://doaj.org/article/9a6c8ab8af8448018d8f866eac60ed52

Foreign migration to the Russian Far East is a comparatively new phenomenon; however within the period of the last 20 years there have emerged certain problems of interaction between ethnic migrants and the receiving society. The article provides data on ethnic migration in the Far Eastern region of Russia that can serve as an empirical background for analysis of how different groups of ethnic migrants could be integrated in the Russian society.