Labor migrants in Russia. Issues of the foreign workers employment

Abstract

Labor migration is a type of migration that is becoming more widespread. The unfavourable socio-economic and political situation in a number of countries forces their citizens to seek the employment and earnings in other countries. Features of the modern Russian labor market for foreign labor are, first, the influx of low-skilled workers from the former Soviet republics, and secondly, the growth in the number of unofficially and informally employed workers. That is why the employment of migrants is characterized by the instability, lack or limited social guarantees, uncertainty and truncation of social status. In this article, special attention is paid to the analyzing the use of labor without permits, which is practiced regardless the wishes of employees and to the detriment of the labor migrants interests, the lack of basic social guarantees for housing, vacation, medical care, etc.