Current Migration Trends in Russia: The Role of the CIS Region Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the migration trends in the Russian Federation from the 1990s to the 2010s in the context of the drastic change in the political, economic and social aspects of the country. It examines the various laws that were passed during the period to indicate the architecture of the migration policy in “new” Russia. The chapter focuses on the Migration Policy Concept (later Concept) and its criticism, which was adopted in 2012 as an action plan until 2025. The last part of the chapter gives an overview of the newest adjustment of the Concept done in November 2018. This latest policy emphasises the importance of labour migration and added internal migration to the agenda for the first time since 1990s.