The Compatriots Programme in the Focus of a Qualitative Sociological Research

. The article examines the problem of client assessment of the implementation of the state programme to resettle compatriots living abroad to Russia. The results of the author’s approach demonstrate the problems arising in the process of implementing this programme. Therefore, this research aims to supplement the existing instrumental and methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness of government programmes with client-oriented approaches. Some of the presented results of the author’s sociological study of migrants and migration policy allow identifying key problems and, in part, determining ways to improve the Compatriots programme on rendering assistance to voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation.