Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 25th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview IV. Regional Development and Inter-regional Author(s) Tatiana Zaytseva Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow Russian Federation Title Managing Labor Migration: An Example of Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Tatiana Zaytseva Abstract Abstract In recent years the world is going through the process of a mass migration and relocation of huge amounts of people from one country to another. Groups of migrants flow from countries with predominantly Islamic culture in the countries of Central, Western and Eastern Europe with different cultural, religious, social and economic peculiarities. The States - recipients of migrants obtain difficulties not only in managing people flows, but also in solving huge set of problems as well as in making use of the resulting resource. This, in turn, creates the necessity of a cultural, social, legal and sometimes even physiological adaptation of migrants to new life conditions. In cases when migrants come from war-torn countries, inter-regional cooperation between territories is virtually impossible. However, if the country-source of migrants and the country-recipient are committed to sustainable development from the perspective of mutual interests of counterparties, constructive dialogue should be kept alive and can lead to fruitful cooperation and mutual enrichment. Russia and Tajikistan have a long shared history. Hundreds of years lived together first in the Russian Empire, then as a part of the USSR, laid the foundation for positive relationships, good understanding and willingness to cooperate for both countries. With the collapse of the USSR, Tajikistan was taken out from the long and well established economic and social ties, which led to a critical drop in production and the closure of many businesses. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed people from Tajikistan have flocked to work in Russia. At the early stages the process of mass migration was spontaneous. Later, however, both countries were faced with the necessity to deal with this problem and to launch the process of finding the compromise solutions to the accumulated problems. As a result of these efforts acceptable solutions were found and now help both sides to use the current situation to the mutual benefit.
