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Region: Economics and Sociology

2014 year, number 2

Modern-day Contrasts of Inter-regional Migration in Russia

Igor Korel1, Lyudmila Korel2
1Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk
2Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
Keywords: internal interregional migration, cluster analysis, indicators of migration, clusters of migration catastrophe, concept of state migration policy, migration contrasts, hierarchy, migration threat, human capital

Abstract

The paper proposes a way to visualize an interregional competition for a unique scarce resource, namely human capital assets, which is unfolding in the Russian migration space. It may be done within a model of a current seven-cluster structure of migration in regions of Russia which uses ten classic indicators of migration. The database comprises material from Russian Federal State Statistics Service. We show that our cluster structure of migration in regions, although slightly «patched-up» in its geography, has profound and stable migration contrasts and dissonances. They prove a dangerous migration trend of the last three decades which still generally remains in the second decade of the XXI century: migration flows are highly center-oriented; these flows leave eastern and northern frontiers of the country deserted and does not react to any modest attempts to rectify the situation made by the government. We confirm that the Russian migration space is «self-organized» and has hierarchical structure. The Cluster No. I stands on top; being a pole of attraction for migration flows, it accumulates population from the borders. The cluster of «migration catastrophe» (Cluster No. VII) is the lowest; it creates catastrophically large migration loss within human resources against the background of raging migration turnaround that destabilizes economic and sociocultural environment in the regions of the cluster.