Head of the Institute of Demography of the Russian Academy of Sciences: labor migrants from the CIS went to China and the UAE

2024-02-10T10:03:49.489Z

Highlights: Migrants from the CIS are more often interested in European countries in terms of employment opportunities. “We are already seeing the first signs of an increase in the migration flow to China from Tajikistan specifically for the purpose of labor migration,” says Marina Khramova, director of the Institute of Demographic Research of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The countries of the Arab world, such as the UAE and Qatar, also began to attract migrants from Central Asian countries.

For labor migrants from the CIS countries, who were usually in Russia, new attractive destinations for relocation began to appear, Marina Khramova, director of the Institute of Demographic Research of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RBC. Among such destinations, she named China and the countries of the Arab world.