Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic:

Where do migrants live in European capitals?

  • The largest European capitals: the question of comparability

  • London: immigration and social stratification

  • Paris: shantytowns and the bourgeois districts

  • Madrid: a late but lively start to immigration

  • Berlin: traces of a divided city

  • Moscow: immigration against a background of decreasing ethno-cultural cohesion

  • Settlement of immigrants and housing prices in cities: is there a connection?

  • Conclusion

  • Links to current issue topic

  • Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Immigrants in the EU-27

  • Migration growth: the main factor in population growth of the EU-27, in 2011it provided 68% of the total increase

  • In 2011 around 1.7 million people immigrated to the EU-27

  • In the EU-27 live 20.7 million citizens of countries outside the Union, while 33 million people were born outside the Union

  • Among foreigners residing in the EU-27 the most numerous are citizens from Romania and Turkey: 2.4 and 2.3 million people, respectively

  • In 2011 782 thousand people received EU-27 citizenship, somewhat fewer than in 2010, but more than in all previous years

  • Foreigners account for 7% of employment in the EU-27 economy

Through the eyes of analysts

  • Moscow’s identity and the identity of Muscovites

  • The Russian city in conditions of capitalism: the social transformation of intraurban space

  • Social segregation and polarization

  • Two Moscows: the worldview of Muscovites and the differentiation of urban space

  • The Moscow stratagem

  • Factors in the demographic development of India’s cities

Recent polls

  • Dreams of emigration

  • Youth: thoughts of immigration are no longer uncommon

  • Investment in health: are Russians ready to spend money on fitness and paid medicine?

  • Anti-smoking law comes into force

  • Russians on smoking and the law that limits it

In the vastness of Russia

  • To fully develop the Far East a million more inhabitants are needed

  • The number of births in 2013 grew by 1.5%

  • The Ministry of Labor issues a fertility forecast for 2013

  • Russian women have their first child at an average age of 25

  • The number of pregnant minors in Russia remains high

  • Almost half of Russian women under 18 have sexual experience

  • Two-thirds of Russian families have only one child

  • Measures are necessary to support the birth of a first child, says Golodets

  • Government has turned down bill to lower the pension age for mothers of large families

  • Plan to create 750 thousand places in kindergartens within 3 years

  • 50 thousand orphans to be set up in families by the end of year

  • In 2012 most Russian orphans were adopted in Italy and the U.S.

  • Russia will now allow adoption by same-sex families in France or elsewhere

  • “Civic Platform” has set up a charitable fund to help with the adoption of sick orphans

  • Nearly 12 thousand children in Russia were wanted by police in 2012

  • Since 2001 the number of Russians satisfied with their quality of life has doubled

  • Electronic passport will be available in any branch of the federal Migration Service

  • Russia and the EU are finalizing an agreement on visa facilitation

  • City-dwellers believe there are too many migrants in Russia

  • Migrants should live in their own country, says Sobyanin

  • “Loitering” workers have no place in Russia

  • FMS ( Federal Migration Service) may create a new strategy for attracting foreign workers

  • State Duma imposes additional restrictions on the entry of migrants into the Russian Federation

  • Russian Interior Ministry proposes to simplify expulsion of foreigners without passports

  • State Duma passes in first reading amendments to law on tax registration for migrant workers

  • When specialists want to emigrate abroad “no one should be held back by their sleeve”

  • Experts explain the reluctance of Russians to emigrate

  • Over 42 thousand crimes were committed by foreigners in Russia last year

  • In Russia 35% of the adult population smokes

  • Does the anti-smoking law already need correcting?

  • The effect of the anti-smoking law to be evaluated with the help of population surveys

  • Russians know about the dangers of smoking and alcohol, but are in no hurry to quit

  • In Russia drugs are used by about 8.5 million people

  • The Federation Council approves law on testing students for drugs

  • In 2012 Russia registered a record decline in maternal mortality

  • Around 18 thousand people in Moscow die each year of cancer

  • Over 140 thousand Russians have suffered from tick bites

  • The Duma may allow doctors to perform emergency operations without parental consent

  • Russians have started taking more care of their health, but without spending much money

Eurasian Panorama

  • The population size of Belarus as of May 1 was 9,459 thousand

  • The bulk of low-income households in Belarus have children under 18

  • The minimum wage in Armenia will be $108 starting July 1

  • The Senate of the Parliament has approved the law on pensions in Kazakhstan

  • But the President of Kazakhstan has returned a bill to reform the pension system

  • Tajikistan and Belarus have begun cooperating in higher education

  • Russia and Belarus are developing a single standard document to certify completion of high school

  • Ukraine wants to impose a tax on holidays abroad

  • In the first quarter of 2013 the number of jobs in Georgia decreased by 42,000

  • On the Kazakh-Russian border a “one stop” principle is to be implemented

  • When entering Kirgizia, citizens of Kazakhstan will have to present documents with photos for children

  • Will improving conditions in Tajikistan solve the problem of migration to Russia?

  • Belarusian top managers prefer to work in Moscow

  • Kiev has simplified the issuance of work permits for foreigners

  • Kazakhstan has sheltered more than 15,000 refugees

  • Russian will not yet be the second state language in Ukraine

  • Nearly everyone in Kazakhstan speaks Russian

  • Special UN report shows concern over spread of TB in Tajikistan

  • Azerbaijan wants to ban abortions due to the “wrong” gender

World news

  • German census shows population decline

  • PACE takes stand for political and legislative support of children’s rights

  • Chinese Government has launched a program to return underage orphans to school

  • U.S. Congressmen are hoping to conclude a new agreement with Russia on adoption

  • Mexicans work more than residents of any other OECD country

  • Ministers of labor îf G20 countries to discuss job creation

  • The highest unemployment rates in EU are in Spain, Portugal, Slovakia and Greece

  • Unemployment rate in Italy has reached an historic high of 12.8%

  • European Commission will sue the UK for discrimination against workers from new EU countries

  • Switzerland has introduced new quotas on the influx of migrants from the EU

  • Lebanon and Jordan will receive $10 million from Russia to help refugees

  • South Korea asks China not to transfer North Korean refugees to Pyongyang

  • Bill on xenophobia and racism introduced in Greek Parliament

  • Japanese companies hiring fewer and fewer smokers

  • In Latvia, parents are forbidden to smoke in the presence of children

  • OSCE puts number of drug addicts in Europe at 15 million

  • The death toll from the new SARS virus has reached 27 people

  • WHO chief calls new coronavirus a major global threat to humanity

  • In Lithuania, an outbreak of measles

  • In Singapore, the incidence of dengue fever 4 times higher than the threshold

  • WHO warns about the inevitability of epidemics in Syria and surrounding countries

  • Sweden is named European leader in sexual infections

  • Lithuania plans to ban abortion

  • Will Lithuania prohibit sex changes?

  • The British need to get married in order to be happy

The newspapers write about

  • “AiF-Moskva” on the Moscow mayor’s attitude to ethnic neighborhoods

  • “Kommersant” on migration issues in Moscow

  • “Vedomosti” on the authorities’ anti-migrant rhetoric

  • “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the debate about the usefulness of migration for Russia

  • “Novaya Gazeta” on Russia’s need for a migration code

  • “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on immigration amnesty

  • “Vedomosti” on a visa-free space as a “political specter”

  • “Kommersant” on a possible resumption of border controls within the Schengen

  • “Vedomosti” on factors of emigration from Russia

  • “Slon.ru” on the potential of emigration from Russia

  • “FINANCE.UA” on emigration from Ukraine

  • “Mignews.com.ua” and “Kommersant” on labor migration from Ukraine

  • “Regnum” on labor migration from Belarus

  • “Gazetavv.com” on taxing remittances from Ukrainian workers

  • “Kommersant” on the Nongovernmental Pension Fund for Kyrgyz migrants in Russia

  • “FINANCE.UA” on internal labor migration in Ukraine

  • “Izvestiya” on Syrian Circassians as “Russian compatriots”

  • “Paruskg.info” on Russians in Kirgizia

  • “Atlantico” on the integration of immigrants in Germany

  • “Telegraph” and “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on the Muslim problem in Europe

  • “The Wall Street Journal” on the problem of aging in China

  • “Gazeta.ru”, “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” and “Vedomosti” on the draft Concept of Family Policy

  • “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on support for large families

  • “Moskovskie Novosti” on the usefulness of investment in Artificial Reproductive Technologies

  • “Slon.ru” on religiosity and fertility

  • “Foreign Policy” on the sexual revolution in Iran

  • “Toyo Keizai” on the problems of Japanese youth

  • “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on preventive medicine

  • “Izvestiya” on alcohol use in Russia

  • “Le Monde” on the coronavirus in Saudi Arabia

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the ethnic specificity of diabetes

  • “Przegląd” on cities of the future

  • “Project Syndicate” on urbanization

  • “Finmarket” on Russian cities and immigration from the intraregional periphery

  • “Vedomosti” on the civilizational rift in the Caucasus

  • “Kommersant-Dengi” on regional policy and regional inequality in Russia

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the genetic diversity of southern Europeans

Read books and magazines

  • Demographic Yearbook of Russia. 2012

  • The city in theory: experience of understanding space

  • Protecting the social and labor rights of migrant workers in the CIS

  • The migration field of Russia

  • Health policy responses to the financial crisis in Europe

  • Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaselenie” (“Population”) and “Terapevticheski arkhiv” (“Therapeutic archives”)

  • Content of the magazine «Hommes et migrations»

Profession: researcher

  • Greetings with jubilee anniversary of Irina Alexandrovna Zbarskaya [Madeleline and I looked at the article together, couldn’t figure out if it was the woman’s birthday or not. ‘Jubilee’ does not generally refer to birthdays, but if that is the word you want I would at least recommend ‘Happy jubilee anniversary to Irina Alexandrovna Zbarskaya’]

  • 85 years since the birth of Alexander Yakovlevich Kvasha

New in the reading room

A.Ya. Kvasha. What is Demography?

Student page

  • On the Master’s program in Demography

  • Who’s ready to give birth for money? A meeting of the Laboratory for Socio-demographic Policy and the student society “Demographer”

 

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