Migration from the Newly Independent States: 25 Years After the Collapse of the USSR

Springer, Cham presents the new book “Migration from the Newly Independent States: 25 Years After the Collapse of the USSR”.

CLMS Reserch Fellow Evgenia Chernina  is the author of the chapter  "Selection Patterns During Migration Boom: The Case of Tajikistan"

Abstract

During many years Tajikistan has been the world leader in terms of the ratio of remittances to GDP. Late 2000s and early 2010s were the years of migration boom when the country’s dependence on financial streams from migration was established and the effects of migration started being evident. Much of these effects were driven by the characteristics of migrants and their households and the context of the country. This chapter reviews recent evidence on the effects that migration has on the lives of households in Tajikistan. Using data from a panel household survey, this chapter describes migrants’ profile and factors of migration decision with a special focus on migrant skills and their households’ wealth.

Chernina E. (2020) Selection Patterns During Migration Boom: The Case of Tajikistan. In: Denisenko M., Strozza S., Light M. (eds) Migration from the Newly Independent States. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7_11

Book “ Migration from the Newly Independent States: 25 Years After the Collapse of the USSR”

Editors: Mikhail Denisenko (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), Salvatore Strozza (Department of Political Sciences University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy), Matthew Light (Centre for Criminology University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada).
Publisher: Springer, Cham.

About this book

This book discusses international migration in the newly independent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which involved millions of people. Written by authors from 15 countries, it summarizes the population movement over the post-Soviet territories, both within the newly independent states and in other countries over the past 25 years. It focuses on the volume of migration flows, the number and socio-demographic characteristics of migrants, migration factors and the situation of migrants in receiving countries. The authors, who include demographers, economists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists, used various methods and sources of information, such as censuses, administrative statistics, the results of mass sample surveys and in-depth interviews. This heterogeneity highlights the multifaceted nature of the topic of migration movements.

Keywords

Migration, Commonwealth of Independent States, Emigrants and immigrants, Integration of migrants, Foreign workers, Refugees, Factors of migration, Migration policy, Consequences of migration, Repatriation, CIS


More about the book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7