ON THE INTEGRATION OF FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS IN MAJOR RUSSIAN CITIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE YEKATERINBURG CITY)

Abstract

Purpose: analysis of the socio-demographic situation in the Sverdlovsk region, Ekaterinburg problems and development of a set of government measures to improve the efficiency of regulatory processes of migrants’ integration in the community of Russian cities. Methods: economic and statistical analysis of scientific literature, websites, periodicals on the impact of labor migration on the socio-demographic and economic development of Russian cities, selective sociological survey on the integration of foreign migrants in the community, the economy of the Russian cities. Results: The article considers the dynamics of change in the age composition of the population of the Sverdlovsk region, Ekaterinburg, factors affecting the integration of migrants in the community of Russian cities, the author analyzed the statistical indicators that reflect the state of the social, labor and demographic sphere, analyzed the results of a sociological survey among foreign migrant workers. Scientific novelty: the author proposed a method of sociological research of migrants’ integration problems, as well as the complex of measures regulating the integration of migrants in the community of Russian cities and regions.