Interview with Irina Ivakhnyuk, Doctor of Economy, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates, RIAC Expert
Labor migrants in Russia face challenges to keep their jobs: passing of Russian language, history and language tests, acquiring expensive permits, paying monthly fees, all with no guarantee they will be able to work. Moreover, studies show Russians increasingly don’t see migrant workers in a positive light. Temporary and permanent migrant workers play an important role in Russia’s labor...
... that pragmatism should be the top priority, there can be no other opinion. But pragmatism and other considerations are not entirely incompatible, since moral and ethical considerations can be built into the pragmatic considerations.
Let us take the migration crisis in Germany as an example. Having taken in refugees, the Germans seemed to have been acting in accordance with some moral imperatives: people need help, etc. However, there was also a rational pragmatic idea: solving the demographic problem....
... stands virtually no chance of conquering networked structures, which are more flexible, have no problems recruiting new members thanks to quickly spreading viral ideas, and rarely crumble if one or two of their leaders are eliminated.
Vladimir Malakhov:
Migration Crisis: International Cooperation and National Strategies
Does all this mean that the chances of a host country preventing the radicalization of migrants are too slim? Probably not, given that the state has a broad range of social integration ...