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“Migration determinant” and spatial features of the forming diasporas of the leading Central Asian ethnic groups in modern Russia
“Migration determinant” and spatial features of the forming diasporas of the leading Central Asian ethnic groups in modern Russia
Annotation

The issues of sustainable demographic dynamics are particularly relevant in modern Russia. Among them, migration issues occupy a key place, including such priority aspects as analysing the most important factors and directions of migration flows, their ethnic structure, as well as the impact of migration on ethnodemographic and ethnocultural changes in Russian regions. During whole post-Soviet period the bulk of the migration growth of the population of Russia was providing by the Central Asian States. Since the mid-2000's this process has been accompanied by a rooting and growth of diasporas of the leading Central Asian ethnic groups: primarily representatives of the Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Tajik nationalities, localized on the territory of the Russian Federation. The article focuses on geoeconomic factors of immigration to Russia, analyses its dynamics, and identifies the ‘Central Asian component’. Special attention is paid to the identification of spatial features of the forming diasporas of the Central Asian peoples (with maximum detail for the most numerous ethnic community of the Central Asian macro-region which is the Uzbek ethnic group). The analysis is based on data from the all-Russian population censuses of 1989, 2002 and 2010. The study shows that against the background of almost universal growth of the Uzbek diaspora, the most attractive areas for immigrants are economically highly developed territories — the capital regions and their nearest periphery, as well as the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, the Novosibirsk region, the Primorsky region, and others.

About authors
Alexander Druzhinin
Head of the North Caucasus Research Institute of Economic and Social Problems, South Federal University, Rostov-on-Don; Leading researcher at the Institute of Geography of the RAS; Research Professor, I. Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad
North Caucasus Research Institute of Economic and Social Problems, South Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, I. Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad
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