Migration from the Newly Independent States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • M. Denisenko, M. Light, S. Strozza

   Pages 1-9

3. General Trends of International Migration in Post-Soviet Space

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Migration Between Successor States of the Soviet Union: Long-Term Factors

      • Grigory Ioffe

      Pages 13-22

   3. Permanent Migration in the Post-Soviet Countries

      • Mikhail Denisenko, Nikita Mkrtchyan, Olga Chudinovskikh

      Pages 23-53

   4. Labour Migration on the Post-Soviet Territory

      • Olga Chudinovskikh, Mikhail Denisenko

      Pages 55-80

   5. Emigration from the CIS Countries: Old Intentions—New Regularities

      • Mikhail Denisenko

      Pages 81-123

4. New Independent States as Countries of Origin and Destination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Migration Trends and Migration Potential of Georgia’s Population

      • Avtandil Sulaberidze, Joseph Archvadze, Vladimer Sulaberidze

      Pages 127-142

   3. Migration from Moldova: Trajectories and Implications for the Country of Origin

      • Tatiana Tabac, Olga Gagauz

      Pages 143-168

   4. International Migration of the Ukrainian Population Since Independence

      • Olena Malynovska

      Pages 169-185

   5. Labor Mobility of Migrants from the Post-Soviet Expanse States at the Russian Labor Market

      • Vladimir I. Mukomel

      Pages 187-208

   6. The Infrastructure Created by Migrants: The Case of Migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow

      • Ekaterina Demintseva

      Pages 209-222

   7. Selection Patterns During Migration Boom: The Case of Tajikistan

      • Eugenia Chernina

      Pages 223-240

5. The Old Centers of Gravitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. Immigration into Germany from the Former Soviet Union

      • Florian Göttsche, Jan Eberle, Gunter Brückner

      Pages 243-275

   3. Post-Soviet Immigrants in Germany: Current Research Perspectives

      • Jannis Panagiotidis

      Pages 277-298

   4. Russian Academic Diaspora: Its Scale, Dynamics, Structural Characteristics, and Ties to the RF

      • Andrei V. Korobkov

      Pages 299-321

   5. A Half Century of Jewish Emigration from the Former Soviet Union

      • Mark Tolts

      Pages 323-344

   6. Migrants from the Former Soviet Union to France: A Diversity of Profiles

      • Tatiana Eremenko

      Pages 345-372

This book discusses international migration in the newly independent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which involved millions of people. Written by authors from 15 countries, it summarizes the population movement over the post-Soviet territories, both within the newly independent states and in other countries over the past 25 years. It focuses on the volume of migration flows, the number and socio-demographic characteristics of migrants, migration factors and the situation of migrants in receiving countries. The authors, who include demographers, economists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists, used various methods and sources of information, such as censuses, administrative statistics, the results of mass sample surveys and in-depth interviews. This heterogeneity highlights the multifaceted nature of the topic of migration movements.

• Migration
• Commonwealth of Independent States
• Emigrants and immigrants
• Integration of migrants
• Foreign workers
• Refugees
• Factors of migration
• Migration policy
• Consequences of migration
• Repatriation
• CIS
• russian and post-soviet politics

• National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

  Mikhail Denisenko

• Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

  Salvatore Strozza

• Centre for Criminology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Matthew Light

Mikhail Denisenko is a Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography and the Head of the Department of Demography at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (NRU-HSE, Russia). His research interests include demographic analysis and projections, migration regulation, and population and development of the post-Soviet states. He has participated in various research projects, including ‘Replacement migration’ (UN Population Division, 2000), and numerous UNFPA activities in the former Soviet Republics. 

Matthew Light is an Associate Professor of Criminology and European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.  He received his doctorate in Political Science from Yale University in 2006.  His research focuses on migration regulation, law enforcement, and criminal justice in post-Soviet countries.  His book, Fragile Migration Rights:  Freedom of Movement in Post-Soviet Russia, was published by Routledge in 2016.  His work has also appeared in various journals, including Theoretical Criminology, Post-Soviet Studies, and Europe-Asia Studies. 

Salvatore Strozza is a Full Professor of Demography at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), Department of Political Sciences. He is the coordinator of the bachelor degree program in Political Science and master’s degrees in International Relations. He is on the editorial board of two international journals: Genus and Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies.  He was the Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP). His main fields of research are international migration in Europe and foreign immigration and presence in Italy.