Grabevnik Mikhail Vladimirovich – PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor, Perm State National Research University
The integration of foreign migrants is often considered as a process of interaction between the migrant and host communities and as a policy formed and implemented by the government. The subject of this article is the state policy of integration of foreign migrants in the contemporary Russian Federation as the establishment and implementation of institutions and institutional opportunities for foreign citizens. The research focus is the variation in the implementation of such government policies in a cross-regional perspective. The article attempts to analyze how and to what extent the subjects of the Russian Federation differ in the implementation (realization of certain institutional opportunities) of the state policy of migrant integration, and whether the dynamics and scale of immigration patterns in Russian regions depend on this variation. The results of the analysis demonstrate that the implementation of the state institutional policy for the integration of foreign migrants in the Russian Federation is differentiated and variable in a cross-regional perspective: there are differences between republics and non-republics, as well as variations within two similar classes, highlighting typical and atypical cases. The results also highlight the lack of a statistically significant correlation between the dynamics of international immigration in the regions of the Russian Federation and their implementation of state institutional integration policies.
integration of migrants, integration policy, Russian Federation, regions, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, multi-level governance.
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