Migration Monitoring According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Problems, Current Status and Prospects

The article is devoted to one of the most pressing problems of the modern world—international migration. The scale and nature of immigration to the Russian Federation are considered. International migration, largely labor migration, has now become an integral economic feature for any State. In terms of population displacement, modern Russia is highly integrated into the global economy and is currently the fourth destination country in the world, second only to the United States of America, Germany and Saudi Arabia. Considering the migration situation in the country, the main migration donors for the Russian Federation, which are citizens of the CIS and the EAEU, are noted. The main share of those entering the territory of the country is defined as «work» for their purpose of stay. Researchers consider demographic factors to be destabilizing factors of the labor market, which are manifested in the trend of natural population decline that has developed in recent years. In this case, population migration acts as a means of redistributing human capital. This process causes positive changes in the economy, in intercultural exchange, but illegal migration can have a negative impact, lead to an increase in crime and, on the contrary, negatively affect the country's economy, reduce the sustainability of regional development. The article focuses on identifying the risks of illegal migrant labor. The information base of the study was statistical and analytical materials of the international statistics services and the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.