How many migrants should there be in Russia?
Or, say, how many migrants should there be in any other country?
The point is, as much as you like.
It is extremely difficult to regulate quotas and precisely calculated figures.
This is determined by the objective situation.
For example, there are European countries where there are very few migrants, although life in these countries seems to be something, if not fabulous, then at least quite acceptable.
There are no migrants in Latvia, there are none in Portugal.
The word "no" here should be understood as "little".
There is not enough work for their own people, and theirs leave from there, there is nowhere to attach migrants there.
There are many migrants where there is a lot of work, and also where there is the so-called imperial legacy - in Great Britain, in France, in Russia.
Russia, to some extent, feels its responsibility for the parts that have fallen off from it.
It is important to note here that these units were not colonies, they were full-fledged participants in a grandiose project that took off and even went into orbit, but subsequently sank in the murky waters of dubious aspirations for a better and unexplored life.
Actually, this is why we have Tajik janitors, why we have samsa with shawarma instead of belyashi with kalachi, because we have ghettoized schools and taxi drivers who do not speak Russian.
And if you can somehow live with shawarma, then you need to work with schools.
The day before yesterday, President Putin said: “The number of migrant children in our schools should be such that this would allow them, not formally, but in fact, to deeply adapt to the Russian language environment.
But not only to linguistic - to cultural in general, so that they can immerse themselves in the system of our Russian values. "
This means that in Russia - we are, of course, primarily talking about large cities - there should not be those very ghettos.
If someone is fond of the image of Chinatown in the southeast of Manhattan, you need to understand that in Moscow it will be Panazia-kishlak with its own laws and an extremely unfriendly attitude towards the locals.
More precisely, no longer local.
In Russia, we still have access to the way of assimilation of those who want to live and work here.
Many countries, drowning in political correctness and boundless respect for the cultural characteristics of the newcomers, have already missed the point of no return.
Try going to a fast food restaurant near Prospekt Mira on Friday afternoon.
In the closet, you will see groups of dark-haired, focused people washing their feet in the sink.
Near the mosque, and they need to for Friday prayers.
I do not even mention the famous photographs of Eid al-Adha in Moscow - a sea of people praying on the tram tracks.
On the other hand, letting people practice their cult once a year is not a big price to pay for loyalty to an empire.
There is some idealized idea of migration policy: the state must provide its native citizens with high-paying jobs, and then no migrants will be needed.
Let's leave the unicorns on the rainbow and proceed from what is and what can be real.
In large Russian cities there is work that is paid in accordance with market conditions.
Whether you like it or not.
That is, a trip in an economy class taxi can cost 94 rubles, not because someone is ready to starve the unfortunate driver to death, but because there are drivers who are ready to do this work for two-thirds of the specified amount.
Thus, the market is constantly in need of an influx of such agreeable people.
And who could they be?
Let's not flirt, these are, of course, visitors from Central Asia.
To a certain extent, migrants are necessary, the question is whether the receiving side can cope with these migrants.
Right now we have fallen into some kind of failure - a time when millions of people belonging to the middle generation ended up in Russia at a time.
They did not study in Soviet schools in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, they grew up in an environment where belonging to the Russian world and knowledge of the Russian language did not make any sense.
Their parents, as a rule, had at least a secondary education, more or less the same for the entire Soviet Union.
250 million people in one way or another spoke the same language and considered themselves part of one country.
This has nothing to do with those who are now 25-30 years old, that is, the huge mass of the able-bodied population.
Here you have to think: these people who came here to work will earn money and leave, or will they stay and take root?
The first is unlikely simply because it is ridiculous to think about some serious earnings, which in the future may become capital.
But the latter is possible in some cases.
What then?
Family, children, school.
And the generation that will go to school here can still be turned in its direction.
For this, the children of migrants must dissolve in the general school stream.
This means that there should be very few of them in each class - one or two people, and most importantly: there should not be any separate classes, let alone schools for migrant children.
Such schools ultimately lead to the ghettoization of entire districts.
And we, you forgive me, would like to assimilate those who enjoy our hospitality.
Being Russian is quite simple - all you need to do is speak Russian and want to be Russian.
Otherwise, it is not entirely clear why you should come here.
In the questionnaire for accepting citizenship of the Russian Empire in 1915 there was such a question: "Have you got used to Russian living conditions?"
If you get used to it, you are welcome.
The condition is small.
But there is one more less obvious point related to the migration policy of our country.
More precisely, with how this migration policy can change.
In the current world, which is losing its common sense, Russia may well become an intellectual vacuum cleaner.
Come to us those who are tired of feeling in danger amid the insane political correctness and the indispensable demands to kneel in front of those whom you have never even seen.
Come those who have a different opinion from the one approved by the all-consuming leftist discourse.
Come on over.
And you will get used to the Russian living conditions, you will see.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.