Minimizing state’s risks from illegal migrants’ labour

Abstract

The article examines the problems of emergence and implementation of illegal labor relations between national economic entities an d international mi grants. Migration processes carry potential and real threats to national and economic security. Therefore, the state needs to assess the risks of all illegal manifestations of migration and take a number of reactive and proactive measures aimed at minimizing t hem. The paper studies illegal labor activities of migrants, assesses the number of illegal labor migrants aimed at minimizing the risks from their labor activities. The purpose of the study is to develop methodological approaches to assess the risks of the state from illegal labor activities of migrants (based on their quantitative determination ) as a mechanism for countering illegal migration processes in the system of Russia’s economic security. The study is based on the works of Russian and foreign researchers in the field of risk-management, economic security, illegal migration and illegal migrants’ labor activities. The information base of the study are the statistical and analytical materials of the services of international and national statistics. The article emphasizes the need to systematically assess state risks by identifying illegal labor relations of migrants. The practical significance and scientific novelty of the study is determined by the possibility of implementing methodological recommendations f or assessing the number of illegal labor migrants in the strategy an d program for ensuring the economic security of the country throuh implementing relevant mechanisms to counteract illegal migration processes.