Migrant Workers In Russia

Author : Anna-Liisa Heusala,Kaarina Aitamurto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317328001

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Migrant Workers in Russia by Anna-Liisa Heusala,Kaarina Aitamurto Pdf

Russia has a very large pool of economic migrants, up to 25% of the workforce according to some estimates. Although many migrants, many from former Soviet countries which are now independent, entered Russia legally, they frequently face bureaucratic obstacles to legal employment and Russian citizenship, factors which have led to a very large “shadow economy”. This book presents a comprehensive examination of migrant labour in Russia. It describes the nature of migrant labour, explores the shadow economy and its unfortunate consequences, and discusses the rise of popular sentiment against migrants and the likely impact. The book also sets the Russian experiences of migrant labour in context, comparing the situation in Russia with that in other countries with significant migrant labour workforces. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization),Jane Buchanan
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781564324320

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"Are You Happy to Cheat Us?" by Human Rights Watch (Organization),Jane Buchanan Pdf

"Russia is home to an estimated 4 to 9 million migrant workers, over 40 percent of whom work in the construction industry. Large numbers of Russia's migrant construction workers, who overwhelmingly come from other countries of the former Soviet Union in search of steady work and decent wages, suffer abuses ranging from non-payment of wages, excessively long working hours, physical and psychological abuse, and unsafe working conditions. In the worst cases, migrant workers have been trafficked from their home countries into forced labor in Russia. Employers routinely refuse to provide migrant workers with written employment contracts, as required under Russian law, making workers especially vulnerable to wage violations and other abuses and limiting their ability to access official avenues of redress. Many migrant workers also suffer abuse at the hands of police and other officials. Police regularly target ethnic minorities, including migrant workers, for petty extortion, as well as in some instances physical abuse and harassment. Russia deserves credit for liberalizing some of its migration laws in recent years. However, the authorities have not done enough to ensure protection of migrant workers from abuse, including from private actors. Russia must protect all victims of abuse irrespective of contractual or migration status. The government should ensure rigorous labor inspections, prosecution of abusive employers, and effective regulation of employment agencies and other intermediaries. It should also develop accessible complaint mechanisms for victims and timely and effective investigations into allegations of abuse. In addition, further reform in migration law is necessary to allow workers to more easily regularize their stay, making them less vulnerable to abuse, and more likely to seek protection from state agencies."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Rano Turaeva,Rustamjon Urinboyev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000393262

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Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe by Rano Turaeva,Rustamjon Urinboyev Pdf

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to the link between labour mobility and informality and comprises convincing case studies from a wide range of post-socialist countries. Overall, it highlights the importance of trust, transnational networks, and digital technologies in settings where the rules governing economic and social activities of mobile workers are often unclear and flexible.

Author : Juri Plusnin,Yana Zausaeva,Natalia Zhidkevich,Artemy Pozanenko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838267135

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Wandering Workers by Juri Plusnin,Yana Zausaeva,Natalia Zhidkevich,Artemy Pozanenko Pdf

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia -- the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected in official economic statistics.Based on numerous interviews with otkhodniks and local experts, this stunningly original work focuses on the central and northern regions of European Russia. The authors draw a social portrait of the contemporary otkhodnik and offer a sociological assessment of the economic and political status these 'wandering workers' live with.

Author : Elena Tyuryukanova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9221178412

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Forced Labour in the Russian Federation Today by Elena Tyuryukanova Pdf

Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, examines the forms of exploitation and coercion imposed on migrant workers.

Author : Vladimir A. Ioncev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5721808101

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Labour Migration by Vladimir A. Ioncev Pdf

Author : Rustamjon Urinboyev
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520971257

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Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes by Rustamjon Urinboyev Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia—an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwide—and investigates how Central Asian migrant workers produce new forms of informal governance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political system to navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiate—using informal channels—access to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts.

Author : Eugene Krassinets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9221114066

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Illegal Migration and Employment in Russia by Eugene Krassinets Pdf

Author : Hilary Pilkington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134726561

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Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia by Hilary Pilkington Pdf

The displacement of 25 million ethnic Russians from the newly independent states is a major social and political consequence of the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Pilkington engages with the perspectives of officialdom, of those returning to their ethnic homeland, and of the receiving populations. She examines the policy and the practice of the Russian migration regime before looking at the social and cultural adaptation for refugees and forced migrants. Her work illuminates wider contemporary debates about identity and migration.

Author : Mary Buckley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108419963

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The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia by Mary Buckley Pdf

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

Author : Caress Schenk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487502973

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Why Control Immigration? by Caress Schenk Pdf

Using a multi-method ethnographic approach, Why Control Immigration? argues that the scarcity of legal labour and the ensuing growth of illegal immigration can act as a patronage resource for bureaucratic and regional elites in Russia.

Author : Nancy Popson
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933549811

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Demography, Migration, and Tolerance by Nancy Popson Pdf

"Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Comparative Urban Studies Project"--Cover.

Author : Felix B. Chang,Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136640599

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Chinese Migrants in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe by Felix B. Chang,Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang Pdf

Much of the former Soviet bloc has become a destination for new Chinese migrants. Throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese migrants are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, primarily as petty merchants of consumer goods in unsteady economies. This book situates these migrants within the broader context of Chinese globalization and China’s economic "rise." It traces the origins of Chinese migration into the region, as well as the conditions that have allowed migrants to thrive. Furthermore, it discusses the perception that Chinese globalization is purely economic and explores the relationship among petty merchants, labourers and institutional investors. Finally, by examining the movement of China’s minorities into Central Asia, this book challenges the ethnic construct of new "Chinese" migration.

Author : Franck Billé,Grégory Delaplace,Caroline Humphrey
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924874

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Frontier Encounters by Franck Billé,Grégory Delaplace,Caroline Humphrey Pdf

China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although the three countries share a boundary, their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance.

Author : I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich Pli︠u︡snin,Juri Plusnin,Zausaeva I︠A︡. D.,N. N. Zhidkevich,A. A. Pozanenko
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3838206533

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Wandering Workers by I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich Pli︠u︡snin,Juri Plusnin,Zausaeva I︠A︡. D.,N. N. Zhidkevich,A. A. Pozanenko Pdf

Examines the issue of Russian wandering workers, only a small minority of whom are seasonal agricultural workers.