BETWEEN THE EURASIAN AND EUROPEAN SUBSYSTEMS: MIGRATION AND MIGRATION POLICY IN THE CIS AND BALTIC COUNTRIES IN THE 1990s

BETWEEN THE EURASIAN AND EUROPEAN SUBSYSTEMS: MIGRATION AND MIGRATION POLICY IN THE CIS AND BALTIC COUNTRIES IN THE 1990s—2020s

Published:2022 Issue:2 Volume:14 Page:115-143
ISSN:2310-0524
Container-title:Baltic Region
language:en
Short-container-title:Balt. Reg.

Author:

Ryazantsev Sergey V.¹^ORCID,Molodikova Irina N.²^ORCID,Vorobeva Olga D.³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. MGIMO University; Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; RUDN University

2. Central European University

3. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Institute of Demographic Research the Federal Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

The article analyses migration from border countries (the so-called overlapping area) of two migration subsystems — Eurasian (centred in the Russian Federation) and European (the European Union) from 1991 to 2021 (before the recent events in Ukraine). A step-by-step analysis of the migration situation in the countries of the former USSR — Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and Estonia was conducted. The article examines bilateral and multilateral migration processes, analyses the main factors influencing their development and explores migration policy measures and their impact on the regulation of migration processes in the countries of the overlapping area. These countries, located between the two centres of major migration subsystems in Eurasia (Eurasian and European, or, in other words, between the Russian Federation and the core of the EU), are subject to their strong influence and ‘competitive gravitation’. The strength of this gravitation depends not only on pull and push factors but also on the attractiveness and non-attractiveness of the migration policies prevailing in these migration subsystems at a given point in time.

Publisher

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),History,Cultural Studies,Geography, Planning and Development

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