THE FOREIGN-BORN INDIVIDUALS IN RUSSIA: HOW MANY OF THEM ARE THERE AND WHO ARE THEY?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a significant increase in the foreign-born population in Russia due to outflow of the working-age population from the territory of former Soviet Republics. This group includes persons who live in Russia, but were born outside the territory of the country, i.e. in the Post-Soviet states. The aim of this study is to determine the share of foreign-born individuals in Russia and to outline their socio-demographic characteristics using The Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) in 2009-2012. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of socio-demographic characteristics of foreign-born individuals in Russia and persons of foreign descent in other countries as well as native-born (local) population. Analysis results demonstrated that compared to other countries in Russia there are fewer foreign-born individuals, majority of whom are aged 15 to 64 and came from Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Socio-demographic characteristics of foreign-born individuals residing in the Russian Federation and representatives of the corresponding group living in other countries vary widely. The results of this research show that the foreign-born from the former republics of the Soviet Union as a group are younger and include more males than the native population. There are more married couples among them, but fewer families with children. They contain fewer persons with higher education, but more persons with completed high school and professional education than the natives.

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