Datsyshen V.G. Publications of regional committees of state statistics as a source for studying the history of foreign labor migration in Siberia. Northern Archives and Expeditions. 2023. Vol. 7. No. 2. Pp. 99–107

Abstract

Foreign labor migration has become an important factor in the development of Siberia after the collapseof the USSR. Since the 1990s labor migrants from China, Korea, Ukraine, Transcaucasia, Central Asia, and other countries of the Far and Near Abroad work in the eastern regions of Russia. Mass migration from abroad for residents of theSiberian regions and for the scientific community in the 1990s. has become a new phenomenon, requiring study andreflection. The problems of the development of foreign labor migration have been actively studied throughout the entirepost-Soviet period. Among the many problems that the researchers faced was the limited source base. Leading Russianresearchers have repeatedly stated that it is pointless to refer to statistical materials; in many studies there are no references to publications of regional committees of state statistics. Indeed, the imperfection of migration control institutions,forms and methods of registering migrants do not allow us to give a complete and objective picture of labor migration.The statistical data presented in various compilations require a critical approach. Nevertheless, statistical data remainthe most important source on the history of foreign labor migration. The data presented in statistical collections make itpossible to trace the dynamics of migration processes, the composition of legal foreign labor migration, both in absoluteand relative figures. The introduction of publications of regional committees of state statistics into scientific circulationwill allow raising the degree of knowledge of the problem to a new level.