Illegals go on a visit, or What prevents to solve the problem of uncontrolled labor migration in Russia?
Labor migrants, uncontrolled migration - these concepts have recently caused a certain negative in various social strata. Is there a developed country in the world today that has rationally approached the issue of controlling migration inflows and today, in terms of migration policy, this country reigns full order? Most likely, if such countries exist, they are few. And they are not to be found among the smugglers of constantly arriving illegal immigrants of European states. Calling the United States a country that has solved its migration problems also doesn’t turn a language. However, this time we will leave aside all the talk about other countries of the world and turn our attention to the country in which we live - to the Russian Federation.
Just yesterday, it seemed that natural internationalism and the notion of friendship of peoples soaked with mother’s milk are the main pillars of Russian society. But time goes on, not only the approach to concepts changes, but also these concepts themselves are transformed in a fair way. What used to be hospitality and the desire to find contact with other nations is today considered to be a kind of rotten tolerance that can destroy entire civilizations. The need for the influx of cheap labor from neighboring countries dictates new laws for the development of Russian society, which sometimes too actively turns its attention to Western trends.
Today, even at the state level, it is sometimes possible to hear declarations that labor migration can in a certain way help modern Russia to overcome the crisis. Allegedly, it is precisely the cheapness of labor that arrives in Russian territory that is designed to breathe fresh air into the process of developing the production system. Indirectly, the point is that, they say, why invest substantial funds in the training of workers, middle-level specialists, if these personnel themselves can come, come and fly to Russia from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova or other republics of the former Union.
One of the supporters of the idea that without an impressive migration inflow to the Russian Federation, our economy will not cope with the challenges of the new time, is Peter Schedrovitsky - one of the leaders of such an organization as the North-West Center for Strategic Research. Schedrovitsky is sure that if we want to leave behind our country the status of a country with an actively developing economy that can be transformed into a developed financial system in the near future, then it is impossible to put a barrier for guest workers today. This supposedly will cancel out Moscow’s ambitions to remain a “world city”, and Russia will be thrown back in terms of movement along the path of economic progress. At the same time, Pyotr Shchedrovitsky notes that all the negativity that has recently manifested itself in terms of finding labor migrants in the country is by and large not justified. In his opinion, migrants behave as the indigenous majority allows them to do.
Such a thought looks quite interesting. It turns out that the degree of tension of the situation depends on the indigenous people of a particular Russian region. It seems that the very indigenous population should certainly keep in mind the economic manna from the influx of labor migrants into Russia, and therefore behave on their own territory as if a certain sacred cow had arrived to visit them, to whom many sins can be forgiven. They say that it is Muscovites themselves, St. Petersburgites, Voronezh residents and Rostovites who have brought the situation to the point that migrant workers arriving with entire structures arrange from construction sites or markets in which they work, semi-criminal quarters, and where it is not customary to speak about the observance of Russian laws.
And after all, on the one hand, Mr. Shchedrovitsky and other people who support this kind of migration theory are right. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of Muscovites are unlikely to pay attention to the fact that several young people, obviously not of indigenous origin, will brazenly let go of their hands towards a girl who is alone in the subway. The overwhelming majority of Russians will not even report to the police station when they see how the same “God sent” labor migrants turn the construction site into a site for drug trafficking or a haven for criminal subjects of various stripes. And they will not intervene and report at all, not because they do not see anything reprehensible in this, but because they know how the sting of our Russian domestic justice can turn in our side in the most bizarre way. A person who decides to stand up for the truth may suddenly become a liar, an instigator, a slanderer, or a snitch, and, ultimately, end up behind bars.
It turns out that we are making ourselves cowards out of ourselves, only hiding behind the words about friendship of peoples, tolerance and a multicultural society, the Russian mentality. Somewhere deep down we are indignant, but beyond the depths of the soul our negative does not spread.
And after all, the most important thing is that for an adequate coexistence of the indigenous and non-indigenous population of certain regions, Russia does not need to run out of the entrances with sharply sharpened axes and the cries of “Peter for St. Petersburg people!”, “Voronezh for Voronezh residents!” decide. But it will help to solve its balanced work of the law enforcement system and the judiciary, the control of which is one of the fundamental social tasks. No matter how trite these words sound, it is in the hands of these departments that the threads of contacts of the local population of the Russian regions and people who come to these regions in search of a better life for themselves and their families are found.
One cannot say that any migrant worker is by all means illegal, an extremist or a representative of crime. And if not, then we need a control system, a filtration system, a system for evaluating the contribution of labor for the benefit of the development of the country to which these people arrive. If such a system is not built today, Russia will fully feel the problems from which France barely has time to fight back, for example.
So far, unfortunately, the law-enforcement system of Russia, like, by the way, the vaunted law-enforcement system of Europe, signs in its helplessness with reference to migration problems. In this case, two reasons float to the surface. The first reason is the lack of the necessary legislative base that would allow regulating how much Russia really needs guest workers for “complete happiness”, and the second reason is as old as the world, and the reason is corruption. One may say that any regional branch of the FMS with completely legal methods can bring order to a particular locality regarding the issues of migrant workers, but the FMS, like many other Russian departments, is not spared from employees ready to warm up on contacts labor migrants and their employers.
According to unofficial estimates by economists, the 1 illegal labor migrant for the Russian budget costs 3-4 twice the price of a legally employed Russian. And according to sociologists, the likelihood for a labor illegal to be involved in the criminal business in Russia is close to 100%. So it turns out that Russia's interest in migrant workers is broken about the lack of control over migration flows, which flourishes on the fertilized soil of corruption and the imperfections of the legislative system. And while corruption and “teenage” legislation will remain unresolved problems, neither the introduction of Russian language examinations for people arriving in Russia, their per capita accounting, or anything else will help to achieve the goals ... Therefore, to solve the issue of uncontrollable labor migration, you will first have to pretty plow the domestic Russian bureaucratic field.
Just yesterday, it seemed that natural internationalism and the notion of friendship of peoples soaked with mother’s milk are the main pillars of Russian society. But time goes on, not only the approach to concepts changes, but also these concepts themselves are transformed in a fair way. What used to be hospitality and the desire to find contact with other nations is today considered to be a kind of rotten tolerance that can destroy entire civilizations. The need for the influx of cheap labor from neighboring countries dictates new laws for the development of Russian society, which sometimes too actively turns its attention to Western trends.
Today, even at the state level, it is sometimes possible to hear declarations that labor migration can in a certain way help modern Russia to overcome the crisis. Allegedly, it is precisely the cheapness of labor that arrives in Russian territory that is designed to breathe fresh air into the process of developing the production system. Indirectly, the point is that, they say, why invest substantial funds in the training of workers, middle-level specialists, if these personnel themselves can come, come and fly to Russia from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova or other republics of the former Union.
One of the supporters of the idea that without an impressive migration inflow to the Russian Federation, our economy will not cope with the challenges of the new time, is Peter Schedrovitsky - one of the leaders of such an organization as the North-West Center for Strategic Research. Schedrovitsky is sure that if we want to leave behind our country the status of a country with an actively developing economy that can be transformed into a developed financial system in the near future, then it is impossible to put a barrier for guest workers today. This supposedly will cancel out Moscow’s ambitions to remain a “world city”, and Russia will be thrown back in terms of movement along the path of economic progress. At the same time, Pyotr Shchedrovitsky notes that all the negativity that has recently manifested itself in terms of finding labor migrants in the country is by and large not justified. In his opinion, migrants behave as the indigenous majority allows them to do.
Such a thought looks quite interesting. It turns out that the degree of tension of the situation depends on the indigenous people of a particular Russian region. It seems that the very indigenous population should certainly keep in mind the economic manna from the influx of labor migrants into Russia, and therefore behave on their own territory as if a certain sacred cow had arrived to visit them, to whom many sins can be forgiven. They say that it is Muscovites themselves, St. Petersburgites, Voronezh residents and Rostovites who have brought the situation to the point that migrant workers arriving with entire structures arrange from construction sites or markets in which they work, semi-criminal quarters, and where it is not customary to speak about the observance of Russian laws.
And after all, on the one hand, Mr. Shchedrovitsky and other people who support this kind of migration theory are right. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of Muscovites are unlikely to pay attention to the fact that several young people, obviously not of indigenous origin, will brazenly let go of their hands towards a girl who is alone in the subway. The overwhelming majority of Russians will not even report to the police station when they see how the same “God sent” labor migrants turn the construction site into a site for drug trafficking or a haven for criminal subjects of various stripes. And they will not intervene and report at all, not because they do not see anything reprehensible in this, but because they know how the sting of our Russian domestic justice can turn in our side in the most bizarre way. A person who decides to stand up for the truth may suddenly become a liar, an instigator, a slanderer, or a snitch, and, ultimately, end up behind bars.
It turns out that we are making ourselves cowards out of ourselves, only hiding behind the words about friendship of peoples, tolerance and a multicultural society, the Russian mentality. Somewhere deep down we are indignant, but beyond the depths of the soul our negative does not spread.
And after all, the most important thing is that for an adequate coexistence of the indigenous and non-indigenous population of certain regions, Russia does not need to run out of the entrances with sharply sharpened axes and the cries of “Peter for St. Petersburg people!”, “Voronezh for Voronezh residents!” decide. But it will help to solve its balanced work of the law enforcement system and the judiciary, the control of which is one of the fundamental social tasks. No matter how trite these words sound, it is in the hands of these departments that the threads of contacts of the local population of the Russian regions and people who come to these regions in search of a better life for themselves and their families are found.
One cannot say that any migrant worker is by all means illegal, an extremist or a representative of crime. And if not, then we need a control system, a filtration system, a system for evaluating the contribution of labor for the benefit of the development of the country to which these people arrive. If such a system is not built today, Russia will fully feel the problems from which France barely has time to fight back, for example.
So far, unfortunately, the law-enforcement system of Russia, like, by the way, the vaunted law-enforcement system of Europe, signs in its helplessness with reference to migration problems. In this case, two reasons float to the surface. The first reason is the lack of the necessary legislative base that would allow regulating how much Russia really needs guest workers for “complete happiness”, and the second reason is as old as the world, and the reason is corruption. One may say that any regional branch of the FMS with completely legal methods can bring order to a particular locality regarding the issues of migrant workers, but the FMS, like many other Russian departments, is not spared from employees ready to warm up on contacts labor migrants and their employers.
According to unofficial estimates by economists, the 1 illegal labor migrant for the Russian budget costs 3-4 twice the price of a legally employed Russian. And according to sociologists, the likelihood for a labor illegal to be involved in the criminal business in Russia is close to 100%. So it turns out that Russia's interest in migrant workers is broken about the lack of control over migration flows, which flourishes on the fertilized soil of corruption and the imperfections of the legislative system. And while corruption and “teenage” legislation will remain unresolved problems, neither the introduction of Russian language examinations for people arriving in Russia, their per capita accounting, or anything else will help to achieve the goals ... Therefore, to solve the issue of uncontrollable labor migration, you will first have to pretty plow the domestic Russian bureaucratic field.
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