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Current topic: Russia’s Demographic Challenges. Part three. Migration.

• Challenges of internal migration

• Challenges of immigration

• Challenges of emigration

• Conclusion

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

· International migration, 2017

• According to the UN, the number of international migrants increased in 2017 to 258 million

• The number of refugees has increased to 26 million people

• The US remains the undisputed leader in the number of international migrants - 50 million people in mid-2017

• The greatest number of emigrants are from India - almost 17 million people

• Among international migrants, the proportion of people aged 25-59 is growing - in 2015 it exceeded 60%

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Reasons for not implementing the provisions of the Concept of the State Migration Policy of the Russian Federation

• Migration of the elderly in Russia (according to 2010 census data)

• On the scale of spatial mobility in Russia

Take care of women!

• New measures to support Russian families are approved

• In 2017, the State Duma rejected four of Mizulina’s draft laws on abortion

In the vastness of Russia

• Population of the Russian Federation in 2017 grew due to migration

• Demographic forecast for Russia unfavorable

• Life expectancy of Russians reaches historic high

• Mortality in Russia is decreasing, but slowly

• Retirement age should be raised smoothly

• Expected period of payment of a funded pension for 2018 will be 261 months

• Implementation of demographic measures will require 530 billion rubles

• Ministry of Labor will propose new measures to support fertility

• 49 billion rubles will be allocated for construction of nursery schools in regions over next two years

• For twins or triplets new subsidy will be paid for one child only

• 4% of Russians barely making ends meet

• In Russia, no more pensioners living below the poverty line

• Analysts name the regions of Russia with the lowest salaries

• Filing an application at the registry office will get easier

• The number of registered marriages in Moscow may exceed 100,000 by the end of the year

• Russians name least promising professions for starting a career

• Russian government sets quotas to attract foreign workers in 2018

• 400,000 migrants received work license in Moscow in 2017

• Average long-term indicators for the number of HIV infections in Russia exceeded by 43%

• Nearly 4 million people in Russia take drugs

• Number of mumps cases in Russia has increased five-fold

• In Russia, it’s Siberians who suffer most from depression

• Ministry of Health supports raising age for abortion with parental consent

• Putin urges balanced approach to abortion ban

• The proportion of those receiving timely emergency help should increase to 80%

• Medical documents will be available on public services portal in 2018

• State-guaranteed free medical care program has been approved

• State spending on pain medication tbe increased

• Bill on Baby Boxes for newborns submitted to State Duma

• Half of Russians believe that in cases of sexual harassment the victim is also tblame

• Ministry of Education approves “Lessons in Family Happiness”

World news

• UN announces increase in the number of migrants in the world

• Ukraine falls in world fertility rating

• Europe’s oldest person dies in Spain aged 116

• Ukraine changes mechanism of payouts for birth of a child

• Job openings on Ukraine’s labor market exist, but salaries are low

• Authorities of Abkhazia refuse to simplify procedure for Russians to obtain citizenship

• The EU and Belarus are preparing to conclude agreement on easing visa regime

• Belarus and Russia will exchange data on citizens not allowed to travel abroad

• US Consulates in Russia resume issuing nonimmigrant visas

• Will quotas for resettling migrants in Europe not solve the problem?

• Flow of refugees to Germany declining for second consecutive year

• Refugees in Europe may lose their status in the event of a visit home

• Percentage of Finland’s Russian-speaking population is growing

• Trump compares immigrants with lottery visas to “trash”

• US unfreezes Startup Visa program

• A million Ukrainians in Poland “saving the Polish economy”

• In 2017, 54,000 residents left Lithuania

• Lithuania passes law on the repatriation of Lithuanians and their descendants

• Patriarch Ilia II calls on Georgian emigrants to return to their homeland

• Finnish scientists prefer to work abroad

• Budget revenues in Kirgizia are lower than the amount of migrant remittances

• Remittances from Russia to Tajikistan continue to grow

• Foreign women will find it more difficult to give birth in UK for free

• In 2017 over 3000 Georgian citizens were deported from various countries

• Nearly 7000 Rohingya killed in Myanmar

• Belarus Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to toughen terms of alcohol sales

• In 2017 the number of road accidents in Estonia involving drunk drivers decreased

• Mortality from tuberculosis in Belarus is 3.5 per 100,000 persons

• Up to 650,000 people die each year from flu-related illnesses

• Each additional year of education reduces risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by 11%

• 40% of deaths from cancer can be prevented

• Nearly 17 million children breathe polluted air

• Denmark legalizes medical cannabis

• In US, doctors banned from using the word “transgender”

• Verkhovna Rada introduces criminal liability for domestic violence and forced marriage

• Saudi Arabia allows women to drive motorcycles and trucks

• Australian Parliament legalizes same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “MIR24” on Russia’s demographic policy

• “RBK” on depopulation

• “RT na russkom” on abortion and “conscience”

• “Gazeta.Ru” on Family Life Education in school

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on medicine and life expectancy

• “The Daily Beast” on fake news and the AIDS problem

• “The New York Times” on misinformation based on versions of the origin of AIDS

• “REGNUM” on alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse

• “Kommersant” on legal limits of blood alcohol

• “EkhKavkaza” on reducing the number of road traffic accidents in Georgia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on problems of neonatology

• “Der Spiegel” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on Europe’s attitude to refugees

• “Berlingske” on assistance to refugees

• “Le Temps” on Muslim anti-Semitism in Germany

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on “rubber offices”

• “Vechernyaya Moskva” on “the growth of legal migration”

• “EkhMoskvy” on the necessity of migration

• “Plan Peremen” on visas with the countries of Central Asia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migration from Ukraine to the Belgorod Region

• “Zn.ua” on the brain drain and the scientific diaspora

• “RBK” on inequality in Russia

• “Pravoslavie i Mir” on young people

• “Wonderzine” on vegetarianism and ecology

• “Wonderzine” on good sexism

• “The Village” on biohacking

Read books and magazines

• World population prospects. The 2017 revision. Volume II.

• Health at a Glance 2017

• World Migration Report 2018

• The peoples of Bashkortostan in the last third of the 20^th- beginning of the 21^st century: an historical and demographic study

• A country for old men

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Tsentralnaya Aziya i Kavkaz” (“Central Asia and the Caucasus”

• Contents of the “Journal of International Migration and Integration”

Demographic Digest

• The Evolution of China’s One-Child Policy and Its Effects on Family Outcomes

• BONUS: Demographic articles from Altmetric Top 100 - 2017

Profession: researcher

• What kinds of demographic journals do we need? Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists

• Article anniversary. “How many of us were there then?”

• Mark Tolts. How many of us were there then?