Consequences of International Migration

Consequences of International Migration

Consequences for Russia

On the one hand, migration provides a relocation of labor, leads to the concentration of the active and most enterprising people in major economic centers, allows developing new areas and their natural resources, promotes well-being and growth of professional levels of millions of people. On the other hand, migration leads to the excessive proliferation of large cities in the recipient countries, demographic ageing and feminization of the population in the donor countries. The adaptation of immigrants to the new conditions is almost always accompanied by great difficulties and often conflicts on ethic and religious bases. The result of mass emigration could be depopulation (population decline)

The process of immigration mainly from the neighboring CIS countries hasserious and above all negative consequences for Russia. It requires huge expenses for their arrangement, social assistance and job creation. Along with the creation of appropriate financial and economic conditions in the country, the legislative regulation of migration processes, making appropriate bilateral agreements with countries – members of the CIS, political and social support to ethnic Russians living in these countries are necessary

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Multiculturalism is a policy aimed at developing and maintaining cultural differences both in a single country and in the world in general and the theory or ideology justifying this policy.

Multiculturalism is one of the aspects of tolerance requiring the existence of parallel cultures with a view to their mutual penetration, enrichment and development into the mainstream of culture common to all mankind.

Critics of multiculturalism argue that the result is a complete destruction of centuries-old cultural backgrounds, developed cultural traditions since this mixture always leads to homogenization. Besides, they may insist on assimilation of various ethic and cultural groups eventually leading to a unified national identity.

But according to investigations there is no reasonable alternative to this policy. The need to promote cultural diversity is determined by the following causes[1]:

The causes of cultural diversity

Causes	Essense
Ethno-demographic	Ethno-demographic as the masses of newly arrived members of the society are impressive. The immigrant population in metropolitan areas of the West by the quantity is comparable with the local population
Practico-political	Practico-political as social and economic opportunities of migrants, as a rule, objectively less than that of the indigenous population. The inclusion of migrants into the community of the host country is often very difficult because of cultural distance between them and the locals (not knowing the language, skills of behaviors, values, representations associated with religion
Humanitarian	Humanitarian as the manifestations of cultural identity of the new members of the society receive public expression: associations formed on a regional, religious, ethnic and linguistic heritage; primary education for children in the language of their parents, the publication of printed materials. These national communities keep their language and certain cultural patterns

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