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Human Capital of International Migrants in Border Regions of Russia: What Component Really Matters?

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The orientation of the Russian economy and social policy to the innovative transformation and the development of the national human capital is challenged by the acute demographic issues and peculiarities of migration processes. Border regions are particularly involved and suffer from the disbalance of export and import of the human capital, changing the potential of development of the border territories. The sociological research, conducted among international migrants in six border regions of Russia with different socio-economic development and ethnic composition, allowed to reveal main characteristics of imported human capital and its impact on individual well-being. It was shown that there are some general trends and regional peculiarities, related to institutional conditions.

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Paper prepared in the frameworks of the task of the Ministry of science and higher education of the Russian Federation FZMW-2020-0001 “Human capital, migration and security: transformation in the new migration environment in Central Asia”.

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  1. Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

    Svetlana G. Maximova, Daria A. Omelchenko, Oksana E. Noyanzina & Evelina O. Ebeling

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    Svetlana G. Maximova

  2. Department of Radiophysics and Theoretical Physics, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

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  3. Steppe Institute of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia

    Alexander A. Chibilev

  4. Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

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Maximova, S.G., Omelchenko, D.A., Noyanzina, O.E., Ebeling, E.O. (2023). Human Capital of International Migrants in Border Regions of Russia: What Component Really Matters?. In: Maximova, S.G., Raikin, R.I., Chibilev, A.A., Silantyeva, M.M. (eds) Advances in Natural, Human-Made, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 234. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75483-9_35

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